Paid for by the Federated Republican Women of Nassau (FRWN) Please mail correspondence to FRWN P.O. Box 1338 Fernandina Beach, FL 32035 Luncheon 11:30-Social 11:45-Meeting 12:45-Lunch RESERVATIONS Please reserve by TUESDAY AUGUST 8th A reservation can be made by emailing [email protected]or calling 904-491-5544. If you can’t make your reserved luncheon, please cancel as all reservations cost $15 Meeting are held at the Fernandina Beach Golf Club **Meetings will be at The Fernandina Beach Golf Club** Future 2017 FRWN meeting dates: Sept 8; Oct 13; Nov 10; Dec 8 August 11, 2017 Meeting FEATURED SPEAKER STEVE CLEM FRWN Presidents Message Can it get any hotter, can we have more rain every day, apparent- ly the answer is yes, yes, yes. Now that I have gotten all of the summer complaining over, let’s celebrate! Let’s celebrate the fantastic work our new President is doing, he has: Withdrawn from the Trans-Pacific Partnership; he has a Federal Hiring Freeze; he has Travel Restrictions, finally; An Energy Independence Executive Order; we now have a “One-In- Two-Out” regulation to reduce regulations and control regulatory costs and, the list goes on and on. We can be proud of our President, proud for the first time in 8 years! We had a very successful Christmas in July Marilyn Evans-Jones Scholarship fundraiser. Lots of contributions from our members, I managed to clean out a lot of stuff, okay, I did manage to bring home some things, Cherie I have the break maker and the frozen yogurt/ice cream machine. Judy Oast must have taken things directly from her moving truck to the husbands van to sell at the sale. I won’t tell you what the other girls who worked the sale picked up, and I might have gotten more than the bread machine and ice cream maker. This month we have an exciting speaker, Mr. Steve Clem. He has an extensive career including military as well as Homeland Security. He will share with us his “front line” efforts to protect our borders in the Southwest. Please make sure you make your reservation for the August 11 meeting. The Florida Federation of Republican Convention is being held October 27-29 in Cocoa Beach. We are accepting nominations for attendees to this conference. We may send one delegate for every 10 members. Please let us know at the meeting in August if you are interested or want to nominate someone. I will have information on the Conference at the Meeting. Sincerely, Jackie Osborne
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Paid for by the Federated Republican Women of Nassau (FRWN)
If you can’t make your reserved luncheon, please cancel as all
reservations cost $15 Meeting are held at the
Fernandina Beach Golf Club
**Meetings will be at The Fernandina Beach Golf Club**
Future 2017 FRWN meeting dates: Sept 8; Oct 13; Nov 10; Dec 8
August 11, 2017
Meeting
FEATURED SPEAKER
STEVE CLEM
FRWN
Presidents Message
Can it get any hotter, can we have more rain every day, apparent-ly the answer is yes, yes, yes. Now that I have gotten all of the summer complaining over, let’s celebrate! Let’s celebrate the fantastic work our new President is doing, he has: Withdrawn from the Trans-Pacific Partnership; he has a Federal Hiring Freeze; he has Travel Restrictions, finally; An Energy Independence Executive Order; we now have a “One-In-Two-Out” regulation to reduce regulations and control regulatory costs and, the list goes on and on. We can be proud of our President, proud for the first time in 8 years! We had a very successful Christmas in July Marilyn Evans-Jones Scholarship fundraiser. Lots of contributions from our members, I managed to clean out a lot of stuff, okay, I did manage to bring home some things, Cherie I have the break maker and the frozen yogurt/ice cream machine. Judy Oast must have taken things directly from her moving truck to the husbands van to sell at the sale. I won’t tell you what the other girls who worked the sale picked up, and I might have gotten more than the bread machine and ice cream maker. This month we have an exciting speaker, Mr. Steve Clem. He has an extensive career including military as well as Homeland Security. He will share with us his “front line” efforts to protect our borders in the Southwest. Please make sure you make your reservation for the August 11 meeting. The Florida Federation of Republican Convention is being held
October 27-29 in Cocoa Beach. We are accepting nominations for attendees to this conference. We may send one delegate for every 10 members. Please let us know at the meeting in August
if you are interested or want to nominate someone. I will have information on the Conference at the Meeting.
Sincerely, Jackie Osborne
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August SPEAKER
Steve clem
Steven Clem is an accomplished technical author and public speaker. When he
isn’t building aircraft for Embraer Defense and Security in Jacksonville Florida
he can be found fishing on the ICW near Amelia Island or busy rescuing/
rehabilitating local wildlife with his wife Laura. You will often hear Steve say
he has a wonderful life full of unique experiences and adventures. Steve retired
from the USAF Special Operations Command after 24 years as Chief of Air-
craft Maintenance. He then worked for Eclipse Aviation in Albuquerque, NM.
as Director of Quality to certify the first Very Light Jet for the FAA and re-
ceived the Robert J. Collier award for outstanding achievement in aeronautics or astronautics. After that, he
served as the Director of Operations for a legacy aircraft engineering firm in Los Angeles CA. leading the
way for manufacturing of out of date aircraft parts to sustain older fleets around the world. From there he
served as the Fleet Manager for the Department of Home Land Security, U.S. Border Patrol, Tucson AZ.
This position managed all vehicles, boats and aircraft for the largest sector in the USBP. These experiences
gave him a view into world politics and national security that very few have had first-hand involvement
with.
Here we see the FRWN serving our Veteran community at Jacksonville Airport-the USO
Sharon Lennon, Nancy Inboden and Rita Larrabe
Nancy and Rita
BELOW: Shoppers at our “Xmas in July “ held
at Kelly’s Warehouse. Raising $ for the Marilyn
Evans-Jones Scholarship which FRWN gives to a
Nassau County student biannually .
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FYI By Cara Curtin
THE SUPREMES
The topic for today is the Supremes, not the famous ladies from Motown, but our very own Supreme Court - Or SCOTUS, as it’s affectionately called. It was established by the U.S. Constitution on June 21, 1788, so we just missed its 229th anniversary. This court, the only one established by the Constitution, is designed to have jurisdiction over all federal courts, as well as state courts that are hearing cases involving federal law. To-day, it’s composed of a Chief Justice and eight associate jus-tices, but the first Court had only six positions. They were nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate back then, just as they are today.
The first Chief Justice was John Jay, who convened the first court on February 2, 1790. Five of the six positions had been filled, but he presided over only three associate justices. These four men must have looked impressive in their long, black robes and powdered wigs. They stared at each other for a week – they had no cases to consider – before adjourning and going home. Chief Justice John Jay was 45 years old when he was appointed to the Court. He came from a wealthy New York City family and received most of his early educa-tion from home schooling. He graduated from King’s College (now Columbia University) with a law degree in 1764 and clerked for a series of well-known and well-connected attorneys. In addition to his renown as the first Chief Justice, you may remember him as an author of several Federalist Papers. His negotiations with Britain over trea-ty infractions, the impressment of American sailors, and interference with free trade resulted in the Jay Treaty of 1795. The court’s first few years were unimpressive. It had no permanent home and very little prestige. It heard only a few cases, and its ruling on the most important case it heard was reversed a few years later. The court finally began to thrive under the leadership of Chief Justice John Marshall, who
began his 35-year tenure in 1801. He is the longest-serving Chief Justice and the fourth longest-serving Justice in the Court’s history. A Virginia native, he was the oldest of 15. One brother became a federal judge, while three more were attorneys. He and his brothers were home-schooled by their father, who worked for Lord Fair-fax. The young Marshall boys had full access to Fairfax’s private library. By the time he was 22, Marshall was at Valley Forge with General Washington. The Chief Justice is best known for several landmark cases: Marbury v Madi-son was the Marshall court’s first important case, and it ruled an act of Congress un-constitutional, strengthening the concept of judicial review. Fletcher v. Peck was the first case that ruled a state law to be unconstitutional, and McCulloch v Maryland re-
affirmed federal supremacy by ruling that states could not tax federal institutions. Succeeding courts made several landmark decisions, including the famous Dred Scott case. Dred Scott was a slave born in Virginia whose owner took him to free territory. By hiring Scott out to work for another person – for pay – the owner had technically made Scott a free man. No one in-volved took action on that fact. Scott and his wife had a daughter who was born in free territory while the family was in route to their owner’s property in a slave state. That made the daughter a free person, but no one picked up on that, either. Years later, Scott offered to buy his freedom from his owner, but his offer was refused. He turned to the judicial system to win his freedom. His petition went through the lower courts, all the way to the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that a black person, whether a slave or a freedman, could not be a citizen of this country, and therefore had no standing before a federal court. Scott’s petition was not denied, but was denied the chance to be heard. On a brighter note, Dred Scott and his family were manumitted months later and lived free for the rest of their lives. .
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FYI cont’d
THE SUPREMES The court did not have a permanent home for its first 145 years. Its first sessions in 1790 were held in the Merchants’ Exchange Building in our capital, New York City. It met briefly in Independence Hall, when Philadelphia became the capital, and then moved to Old City Hall, where it stayed for al-most ten years. The court bounced from room to room in the Capitol Building when our government seat moved to D.C. It finally settled in the Old Senate Chamber. It moved into its permanent home at the corner of First Street NE and Maryland Avenue in 1935. This four-story building, designed in a classical style to blend in with its surroundings, is clad in marble, and was built expressly for the court and its business. The building contains the courtroom, of course, as well as the justices’ chambers, an extensive law library, meeting rooms and “auxiliary services,” including a gymnasium. It is open to the public, with tours every weekday. No reservations or tickets are required, and visitors are invited to attend a short informational film. Visits to the cafeteria and gift shop are encouraged. The Court maintains its own police force of 145 officers. This federal law enforcement agency is to-tally separate from the Capitol Police, even though its first members were recruited from that agen-cy. Its primary job is to protect the Chief and Associate Justices. This agency also watches over all of the building’s occupants, was well as the building itself and its grounds. And, as you might imag-ine, it also provides courtroom security, emergency response, and VIP protection, all while providing assistance to visitors. That’s a big job that very few of us know about. But back to SCOTUS itself. There have been 125 Associate and Chief Justices, including Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, nominated by President Trump to re-place the late Antonin Scalia. He took his seat on the bench on April 9 of this year. Associate Justice Gorsuch is a fourth-generation Coloradan, the son of Thomas and Anne Gorsuch Buford. President Reagan appointed Anne as the first female administrator of the EPA. Justice Gorsuch received his early education in his hometown of Denver, but he left to earn his Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia, a law degree from Harvard (cum laude), and a PhD in the Philosophy of Law from Oxford. He met his wife, Louise, while he was at Oxford. They have two daughters. The Court may have another infusion of fresh blood during President Trump’s tenure. Justice Gorsuch will turn 51 this August, which makes him the youngest person on the court. But several Associate Justices are well into their senior years: Eighty-one year old Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy has served the longest – 29 years, 6 months; Associate Justice Ruther Bader Ginsburg is 84, and Associate Justice Stephen Breyer is 79.
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