“This wasn’t something I felt compelled to do six months ago or even three months ago,” Perry said. He was hopeful that “one of the people in our group would explode out and take off and everybody in American could get behind them. That hasn’t happened. My wife basically said, ‘Listen, our country is in trouble and you need to do your duty.’ And that was a pretty clarion call for me.”

The Palin Report will keep people up on Palin news.

The woman seeking to be the Navajo Nation's first female president says she won't concede defeat until she knows for certain the tribal election was properly handled.

Election officials on the nation's largest American Indian reservation say some precincts reported a shortage of ballots Tuesday and ran out before more could be delivered.

Lynda Lovejoy's campaign is urging voters who believe their rights were violated to file a complaint before the Nov. 12 deadline.

Unofficial results show Lovejoy received 47 percent of the vote while her opponent, Tribal Vice President Ben Shelly, had 52 percent.

Shelly and his running mate are among tribal officials facing charges in an investigation of slush funds. Shelly has pleaded not guilty and denied wrongdoing.

This website will be one way to keep abreast of what's happening in our state offices.

I am wanting everyone to be aware that the amount of ex democrats is growing on a daily basis.

In fact if Media such as ABC,NBC,FOX,CBS and CNN were actually reporting news instead of hype, they would have to say that more and more Democrats are leaving the party....... to well... Party independently or with others of like thought and action.

The Democrats have so many people riled over healthcare and the fact that even winning the White House and both houses in the Democrat camp, their President....... could only get one thing rammed through to be signed into law.

That one thing, healthcare reform, is nothing like what the President advertised he wanted during the election campaign.

And Democrats as well as the people of the United States are more than upset.

Yes, the Democratic party is IMPLODING! They are now eating their own! And all the kings horses, and all the kings men won't be able to cure this problem in Obama's internet land.

I have established a new group here on NEWSVINE to help those who feel cheated by the Democrats. Those that did as I did and actually worked for the Democratic Party at one time....Voted Democrat and now are ignored.

It is called RECOVERING DEMOCRATS and you may join by clicking the link.

http://recoveringdemocrats.newsvine.com/

Some may need help with this as I know that withdrawl can be a very hard thing to do. So if you answer yes to any of the following questions, you are on your way to becoming a Recovering Democrat.

You know you are a Recovering Democrat if

1. You have a sudden desire to hear your President and Congress say... Secure all borders, enough is enough!
2. You do not believe "the system worked." during the attempted Chritmas bombing over Detroit.
3. You still believe the U.S. is in a Recession, because you, your neighbor or both are out of work, food and money.
4. You believe that the stimulus should have been spent on STIMULUS to create jobs.
5. You have a tendency to want to think for yourself and express thought out opinions.
6. You thought the last real Democratic President was JFK!
7. You start laughing at Rachel Maddow, and Ed Schultz, because they stopped making sense.
8. You want all the laws enforced and those in charge to lead the enforcement!
9. You are concerned with the security and well being of others and not just yourself.
10. You want to fully understand what, where and how things got so bad in America where a United States President and Congress would side with MEXICO and not a State in the United States when it comes to illegal entry.

I was watching the primaries coverage last night, and heard the Secretary of State mention that they only expected about at 25% turnout. I just shook my head…25%? That’s of REGISTERED voters! Our country and its leadership are decided on less than one quarter of the population. I know, I know, it was the primaries and some people just don’t care about the primaries, but they will vote during the general election. But who they get to vote ON for the general election was based on MY vote, not theirs!

I know, I know, it’s not a presidential election year, so who cares? When elections decide who will be my local representative and state senator, the school superintendent, Attorney General, Governor, etc., everyone should care. These are really important jobs (they are elected for a reason!), they really impact me, and my state and everyone living in it. Everyone should care.

Now I know that’s REALLY altruistic, and naïve, but I’m okay with that. I remember being young…er (LOL) and thinking my little itty bitty opinion was like spitting in the wind, but somewhere along the way, I don’t remember when exactly, that changed for me. I realized that I took for granted the democracy of our country, and I was letting others take my voice, my opinion, away when I did not vote.

Voting is the foundation of our country’s democratic process. Like I always tell my friends, if you did not vote, you can’t complain (ok I normally use a really not nice word here, but hey, trying to keep it decent!). Regardless of your political affiliation, or lack thereof, the individuals we as a community and nation elect to these offices affect our daily lives. That is never more apparent than lately. Voting is the only way to make your voice heard, and to make it count.

One of the reasons this 25% turnout frustrates me so much is my state has mail-in balloting. I mean really, how hard is it? You sign up online, they mail it to you, you fill it out at your leisure, and mail it back. You don’t even need a stamp! More than half the states in this country have mail in ballots, and I just shake my head in amazement, not in good amazement either, at how more than 75% of people in this state couldn’t or wouldn’t vote. I will note one exception here. Those who make an educated, knowledgeable decision to not vote, that is still having your voice heard. It just happens to be saying “I don’t like ANY of you and I am choosing not to vote, so there”. I think that is perfectly reasonable, as long as not voting isn’t based on a sense of futility or laziness.

So PLEASE vote. If you are not registered, get registered. Contact your Secretary of State (most have websites), your local party office (and by party I don’t mean the birthday type, I mean the political type), or even try your states Motor Vehicle Division. Want to know if your state has mail-in balloting? Go to: http://www.votebymailproject.org/votebymailinyourstate.html

If your state has mail in balloting, and you find going to a polling station irritating and inconvenient, sign up! Same contacts mentioned above apply here as well.

This is not a forum for bashing a particular politician, political party or affiliation you do not like!

One woman from Herd-Watch, a program of The Cloud Foundation, studied the newly published Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro handbook and caught BLM in the act of violating their own protocol for the Tuscarora (Owyhee Complex) roundup. The handbook states roundups are prohibited until six weeks after foaling season which ends on June 30th. Therefore the earliest date to start the roundup is August 11th. Laura Leigh, Project Manager of Herd Watch filed a lawsuit today in US District Court in Nevada to stop the roundup."I found their error right in the BLM's management handbook," explains Leigh adding, "The BLM disregards their own rules when it comes to 'managing' wild horse population."

Please read and write the letter discussed in this post!

Given the economic damage inflicted on us by the current administration and many state governments, most readers of this column would probably be quite happy to live in a state where:

• The official unemployment rate in March was 6.6%.

• The average unemployment rate in 2009 using the most comprehensive definition was 10.5%, the fourth-lowest in the nation (behind three much smaller states), and far lower than the national average of 16.2%.

• The number of people either working or looking for work has actually grown during the past twelve months (in most states, the labor force has contracted significantly).

• The economy grew in 2008, and probably did so again in 2009.

Unless you live in Oklahoma, you're not in that state.

It "just so happens" that the Sooner State passed a strict immigration enforcement measure in May 2007, which went into effect six months later. Specifically: