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Our April meeting will be held at the Port Charlotte Moose Lodge,

3462 Loveland Blvd, Port Charlotte, FL

Social and group discussion

6PM – 6:30 to 7:00PM   Social and dining 

7PM until we are done

This month’s speaker has been hard at work for years at breaking barriers to transparency in our government and exposing violations of the people’s rights here in Florida and all over the country.  George Metz a.k.a. Rogue Nation will talk about free press and other first amendment issues and some of the ways we can work to protect what we have left and possibly take back some of what has been stolen.

No one is obligated to order food or drink, but The Moose Lodge has been very generous, allowing us to use their meeting room.  Keep in mind that your server is a volunteer and does not get paid to serve you.  Lisa has been our server and has been doing a wonderful job.  Please make sure to thank her.  Feel free to continue eating during the discussion, no need to rush.  Sometimes the food doesn’t get out right away.  Stay as long as you like after the meeting.  If we need to leave the main meeting room, you are welcome to move over to the lounge until about 9:45PM.

Our March monthly meeting will be held at the Port Charlotte Moose Lodge,

3462 Loveland Blvd, Port Charlotte, FL

Social and group discussion

6PM – 7PM   Social and dining

7PM until we are done – Group announcements and discussion

No one is obligated to order food or drink, but The Moose Lodge has been very generous, allowing us to use their meeting room.  Keep in mind that your server is a volunteer and does not get paid to serve you.  Lisa has been our server and has been doing a wonderful job.  Please make sure to thank her.  Feel free to continue eating during the discussion, no need to rush.  Sometimes the food doesn’t get out right away.  Stay as long as you like after the meeting.  If we need to leave the main meeting room, you are welcome to move over to the lounge until about 9:45PM.

Our February monthly meeting will be held at the Port Charlotte Moose Lodge,

3462 Loveland Blvd, Port Charlotte, FL

Special Speaker Vic Rohe

Article V Convention of States – Pros and Cons

If any time is left after questions,  a suggested topic of discussion might be RLC membership growth and training.

No one is obligated to order food or drink, but The Moose Lodge has been very generous, allowing us to use their meeting room.  Keep in mind that your server is not paid.  She or they are volunteering out of the goodness of their hearts and for our benefit, so please take good care of them.  If you do order, feel free to continue eating during the meeting, no need to rush.  Sometimes the food doesn’t get out right away.  Please see the chairman or one of the other board members if your order gets missed.  Stay as long as you like after the meeting.  If we need to leave the main meeting room, you are welcome to move over to the lounge until 9:45PM.

Our January 5th monthly meeting will be held at the Port Charlotte Moose Lodge,

3462 Loveland Blvd, Port Charlotte, FL

Special Speaker James McLynas

You will hear a unique perspective regarding law enforcement and some other great topics.  James McLynas ran for sheriff in Pinellas County with platform items like restoring the role of peacekeeper, protecting constitutional rights, ending policing for profit and the war on drugs, and defending the second amendment.

You won’t find many that go into court pro se (without a lawyer) and win every time much less one that is running for county sheriff.

Mr. McLynas is an informally trained expert on many laws including the Sunshine Law.  You don’t want to miss this.

If any time is left after questions,  a suggested topic of discussion might be RLC membership growth and training.

No one is obligated to order food or drink, but The Moose Lodge has been very generous, allowing us to use their meeting room.  If you do order, feel free to continue eating during the meeting, no need to rush.  Sometimes the food doesn’t get out right away.  Please see the chairman or one of the other board members if your order gets missed.  Stay as long as you like after the meeting.  If we need to leave the main meeting room, you are welcome to move over to the lounge until 9:45PM.

Our November 3rd monthly meeting will be held at the Port Charlotte Moose Lodge,

3462 Loveland Blvd, Port Charlotte, FL

The Moose is located on the small portion of Loveland on the west side of Kings Hwy.

Interactive map  https://goo.gl/maps/TbLej2REiafF4Q7t8

We will meet from 6:00PM until 8:00PM unless the Moose extends their hours.

Social and dining

Round table discussion on the elections and other happenings across the county and any announcements from members and guests

Please keep an eye on our Facebook for any additions or changes https://www.facebook.com/RepublicanLibertyCaucusofCharlotteCountyFL

Cancelled due to Hurricane Ian damage

Change of Venue

Our October 6th monthly meeting will be held at the Port Charlotte Moose Lodge,

3462 Loveland Blvd, Port Charlotte, FL

The Moose is located on the small portion of Loveland on the west side of Kings Hwy.

Interactive map  https://goo.gl/maps/TbLej2REiafF4Q7t8

We have short social time starting at 6:00PM but will start with our special speaker early as he is from out town.

Our special guest speaker will be Vic Rohe.

The topic will be “Article 5 Convention, Yes or No.”  Questions will follow Mr. Rohe’s informative discourse   We may start a little early, so feel free to order and eat as the speaker starts. The speaker will go first, so if there are any announcements or discussion related to anything other than the topic at hand, it can be addressed afterwards.

There is also time to socialize and talk  after the meeting as well. 

Our September 1st monthly meeting will be held at the International House of Pancakes (IHOP), 1789 Tamiami Trail, Port Charlotte, FL.  We have a social hour starting at 6:00PM. 

Special guest speaker:

Michael Thompson from Florida for America First powered by The America Project

Open forum

Food and drink orders are not obligatory but help to keep the room free.  There is also plenty of time to socialize and talk  after the meeting as well.  You can stay as long as you like.  

Our monthly meeting will be held at the International House of Pancakes (IHOP), 1789 Tamiami Trail, Port Charlotte, FL.  We have a social hour starting at 6:00PM, after a few announcments, we will start the Q and A about 7:00PM.    If you have ordered food, feel free to finish eating as we get started.  Food and drink orders are not obligatory but help to keep the room free.  There is also plenty of time to socialize and talk to candidates after the Q and A.  You can stay as long as you like.  

You can usually meet most, if not all, of our endorsed candidates and sometimes others.

Our July 7th monthly meeting will be held at the International House of Pancakes (IHOP), 1789 Tamiami Trail, Port Charlotte, FL.  We have a social hour starting at 6:00PM, after a few announcements, we will start the meeting about 7:00PM.    If you have ordered food, feel free to finish eating as we get started.  Food and drink orders are not obligatory but help to keep the room free.  There is also plenty of time to socialize and talk to candidates before and after the meeting.  You can stay as long as you like.  

Charlotte County RLC, as an organization, has endorsed four candidates.  Two of our main purposes are to get candidates elected who support our limited government principles and then to hold all our officials accountable. 

This is one of the most important elections in the history of Charlotte County.  We haven’t really had even one liberty candidate run for office in a very long time and we now have multiple candidates.  We have candidates that can win but it will take some work from the grassroots and donations.  I can’t stress how important it is to the future of Charlotte County that everybody that supports any or all of these candidates gets involved this election cycle.  These are all entirely grass roots campaigns.  It is up to each and every one of us to spread the word.

Time is short.  The Vote by Mail ballots will be going out shortly and early voting starts on August 8^th.  Since there are only Republicans running for office, the primary is supposed to be an open primary, meaning that everybody should get to vote for the Commission candidates this year.  Make sure your friends that aren’t registered Republicans know they can vote for their Commissioner this time around.  If you haven’t been to a meeting lately, please come on out and meet the candidates.

You can find out more about our endorsed candidates at the following links:

Dave Kalin – davidekalin.com  liberty@davidekalin.com

Tom Sullivan – sullivanforcharlotte.com  Sullivanforcharlotte@gmail.com

Jim Barber – barber4school.com  barberforccsb@yahoo.com

Robert Hancik – rdhancik@gmail.com

Our monthly meeting will be held at the International House of Pancakes (IHOP), 1789 Tamiami Trail, Port Charlotte, FL.  We usually have a social hour starting at 6:00PM, but since we have two candidates, we will start the Q and A a little early (about 6:30PM).  Please order your food as quickly as possible or get there a little early.   Feel feel free to finish eating as we get started.  Food and drink orders help to keep the room free.  There is also plenty of time to socialize and talk to candidates after the Q and A.  You can stay as long as you like.  

This will be the fifth in our series of candidate question and answer sessions.

We will be fortunate to have Mark “Gunny” Stevens running
for District 4 Commission, and Eric David Bretan running for District 2 Airport Authority.

You can find out more about these candidates at the following links:

Larry Benjamin

Our monthly meeting will be at  International House of Pancakes (IHOP), 1789 Tamiami Trail, Port Charlotte, FL.  We usually have a social hour starting at 6:00PM, but since we have three candidates, we will start the Q and A a little early (about 6:30PM).  Please order your food as quickly as possible or get there a little early and feel free to finish eating as we get started.  Food and drink orders help to keep the room free.

This will be the fourth in our series of candidate question and answer sessions.

We will be fortunate to have David Kalin running for District 2 Charlotte County Commission and Kathleen Coppola running for District 4 Charlotte County Airport Authority.

You can find out more about these candidates at the following links:

Dave Kalin

Kathleen Coppola

Our monthly meeting will be at  International House of Pancakes (IHOP), 1789 Tamiami Trail, Port Charlotte, FL.  We usually have a social hour starting at 6:00PM, but since we have three candidates, we will start the Q and A a little early (about 6:30PM).  Please order your food as quickly as possible or get there a little early and feel free to finish eating as we get started.

This will be the third in our series of candidate question and answer sessions.

We will be fortunate to have Tom Sullivan running for Charlotte County Commission, Cara Reynolds running for Charlotte County School Board and Robert Hancik running for Charlotte County Airport Authority Board of Directors.

You can find out more about these candidates at the following links:

Tom Sullivan

Cara Reynolds

Robert Hancik 

This will be the second in our series of candidate question and answer sessions.

We will be fortunate to have Ted Ehmann running for Charlotte County Commission and Jim Barber running for Charlotte County School board.

You can find out more about these candidates at the following links:

Ted Ehmann: https://tedehmann4cccommissioner.com/

Jim Barber: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=jim%20barber%20for%20charlotte%20county%20school%20board

Chairman of The Republican Liberty Caucus of Florida and past Gubenatorial candidate Bob White came down to speak to us about Florida state government issues.

Sponsor of Constitutional carry in Florida and many other great bills, Anthony Sabatini spoke to us about what is going on the Florida State legislature.  You can find other information and sponsored bills here: https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/details.aspx?MemberId=4725&LegislativeTermId=89

This will be the first in our series of candidate question and answer sessions.

We will be fortunate to have Stephen R. Deutsch running for Charlotte County Commission.

You can find out more about this candidates at the following link:

https://www.stephenrdeutsch.com/