Santa Barbara Tea Party & Culpepper Society

” I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”
– Thomas Jefferson, 1820

Meet Your Candidate for Congress

This is your chance to spend a full evening with one candidate. You can hear what they have to say and ask questions in a solo environment. Let’s get beyond the sound bites and get up close and personal with both of these candidates.

Chris Mitchum

What: Meet candidate Chris Mitchum
When: Monday, May 5
Time: 5:30 mingle, 6:00 Program
Where: Cody’s Cafe – Turnpike Shopping Center

Join us at 5:30 for no-host bar and dinner. Order off the menu (separate checks provided). Please RSVP. Call 805-967-7520 or email here. Specify the Chris Mitchum event. If you are able, please consider dropping $5 in the jar to help support our ongoing effort.

Justin Fareed

What: Meet candidate Justin Fareed
When: Thursday, May 8
Time: 5:30 mingle, 6:00 Program
Where: Cody’s Cafe – Turnpike Shopping Center

Same details as above. Please RSVP. Call 805-967-7520 or email here. Specify the Justin Fareed event.

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”
– Samuel Adams (1776)

“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.”
– John Marshall, McCullough v. Maryland, 1819

Candidate Forum

Here is your chance to hear all of the Republican Congressional Candidates in one place! State Assembly too! Join us this Wednesday. April 23rd, and hear from Dr. Brad Allen, Justin Fareed, Dale Francisco, Chris Mitchum, and Alexis Stuart. Also attending is Ron De Blauw who is running for State Assembly.

What: Candidate Forum
When: Wednesday, April 23
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort
Reagan Room
Cost: Free

Click here for a flyer announcing the event. If you want to know where these candidates stand, come and hear what they have to say. Your vote is important! Cast your vote with knowledge!

Meet Your Candidate for Congress

This is your chance to spend a full evening with one candidate. You can hear what they have to say and ask questions in a solo environment. Let’s get beyond the sound bites and get up close and personal with both of these candidates.

Chris Mitchum

What: Meet candidate Chris Mitchum
When: Monday, May 5
Time: 5:30 mingle, 6:00 Program
Where: Cody’s Cafe – Turnpike Shopping Center

Join us at 5:30 for no-host bar and dinner. Order off the menu (separate checks provided). Please RSVP. Call 805-967-7520 or email here. Specify the Chris Mitchum event. If you are able, please consider dropping $5 in the jar to help support our ongoing effort.

Justin Fareed

What: Meet candidate Justin Fareed
When: Thursday, May 8
Time: 5:30 mingle, 6:00 Program
Where: Cody’s Cafe – Turnpike Shopping Center

Same details as above. Please RSVP. Call 805-967-7520 or email here. Specify the Justin Fareed event.

“I still can’t help wondering how we can explain away what to me is the greatest miracle of all and which is recorded in history. No one denies there was such a man, that he lived and that he was put to death by crucifixion. Where … is the miracle I spoke of? Well consider this and let your imagination translate the story into our own time — possibly to your own home town. A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up working in his father’s shop. One day he puts down his tools and walks out of his father’s shop. He starts preaching on street corners and in the nearby countryside, walking from place to place, preaching all the while, even though he is not an ordained minister. He never gets farther than an area perhaps 100 miles wide at the most. He does this for three years. Then he is arrested, tried and convicted. There is no court of appeal, so he is executed at age 33 along with two common thieves. Those in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing — the only possessions he has. His family cannot afford a burial place for him so he is interred in a borrowed tomb. End of story? No, this uneducated, property-less young man has, for 2,000 years, had a greater effect on the world than all the rulers, kings, emperors; all the conquerors, generals and admirals, all the scholars, scientists and philosophers who have ever lived — all of them put together. How do we explain that — unless He really was what He said He was?”

– President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

President Reagan’s Radio Address to the Nation on the Observance of Easter and Passover on April 2, 1983

“Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves on the ruin of this Country”
– Samuel Adams

Common Core Seminar

What: Discussion of Common Core and Education for Sustainability
When: Saturday, April 12
Time: 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
Who: Holly Swanson – We Choose Freedom
Where: Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort
San Miguel Room
Cost: $15 per person; $25 per couple
RSVP: Call Mary @ 805-967-7520
OR
PayPal link: Click on “Donate” below; Specify “Common Core”

Click here for a printable hand-out or email to your friends. Includes more information about the speaker.

Common Core is seriously deficient as a standard for our children. It represents a common set of standards for everyone. It’s a set of standards that is insufficient for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), satisfies only the bare essentials for low-level college admissions, and is overly strict on career path students. And, in the video noted below, overwhelms students and parents with complexity. While the video pokes fun at CC, the overall effect is serious. Please join us for this critical discussion of Common Core.

View Video – Colbert Mocks Common Core