Rice-Scott County Republican BPOU Chair, Bron Scherer, Appointed to Serve as Secretary-Treasurer

Authored: January 21st, 2012 @ 5:31 PM

Jan 20, 2012

Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Pat Shortridge Appoints Bron Scherer to Serve as Secretary-Treasurer

St. Paul – Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Pat Shortridge announced yesterday that he has appointed Bron Scherer to serve as the state party’s new Secretary-Treasurer until May 2012 when the state central committee will elect a new Secretary-Treasurer.

Scherer is a founder and partner of Protein Sources and Protein Sources-Milling (professional agri-business management and animal nutrition businesses headquartered in Mapleton, MN) and currently serves as its Chief Financial Officer, overseeing the company’s financial accounting, reporting and analysis. Scherer is a graduate of Minnesota State University-Mankato and is a Certified Public Accountant. Scherer currently serves as the Rice-Scott County Republican BPOU Chair and served as campaign manager and treasurer for two successful Minnesota State Legislature campaigns in 2010. Scherer currently lives in Northfield, Minnesota.

“We look forward to working with Bron in the days ahead as we move the state party forward. Bron’s strong financial experience and commitment to our Party’s values will be crucial as we work to get things back on track and prepare for victory in November. This is one of many steps that we are taking and we are well on our way to reorganizing and reenergizing the Party,” said MNGOP Chairman Pat Shortridge.

 

ARTICLES 21 JAN 12

Authored: January 21st, 2012 @ 5:16 PM

ECONOMICS / BUSINESS
We’ve now slipped to number ten on the Heritage Foundation / Wall Street Journal’s annual Index of Economic Freedom. “The U.S. economy faces enormous challenges. Although the foundations of economic freedom remain strong, recent government interventions have eroded limits on government, and public spending by all levels of government now exceeds one-third of total domestic output. The regulatory burden on business continues to increase rapidly, and heightened uncertainty further increases regulations’ negative impact. Fading confidence in the government’s determination to promote or even sustain open markets has discouraged entrepreneurship and dynamic investment within the private sector.”

 

 

So how much of what we buy is actually made in China? It is in actuality a very small percentage of what we spend our money on. It just seems like a lot, because it is clustered in items we tend to spend our discretionary income on, which by their nature are items that cluster at the lower end of the cost spectrum and therefore more likely to be made in places like China.

 

 

Here are some chilling words, “Reasonable Profits Board.” A group of Democrats is proposing just such a thing to regulate an industry.

 

 

GENERAL INTEREST
“Ron Fouchier and Ab Osterhaus of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam accept recommendations by the US government’s National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, which said key details of their US-funded research should not be published because bioterrorists may use the information to cause a bird-flu pandemic.” To me this raises a lot of questions: 1) why are we doing taxpayer funded research in the Netherlands? 2) If it’s being paid for by the U.S. government, shouldn’t they be able to determine, to whom, where and how the information released? 3) But what good is a bunch of specific information if you don’t share it with anyone?

 

People on the Left find behavior like this unfathomable. There is a vast difference between giving private charity, which is a social good and using the ballet box to attempt to redistribute money from one third party to another.

 

I’m not a big Mitt Romney fan, but I have to rise to his defense for releasing the absolutely necessary force -that economist Joseph Schumpeter termed “creative destruction” – in his employment with Bain Capital. And humorist, Frank J. Fleming, has fun in this article with those who think it is somehow wrong.

 

Over in CD 1, the Congressional Democrats fear Walz is vulnerable.

 

Many people don’t like this because they point to problems in California and Colorado. An amendment like this focuses on the core problem of spending and restricts the ability of legislators of growing government by increasing revenue. The problem that California and Colorado are having is they’ve promised too much to too many and now have to go back and reevaluate their priorities and their unaffordable promises.

 

The viable contenders: Mitt Romney and Ron Paul?

 

Quote of the week: “In my opinion, and I’m no expert in this area, dead guys shouldn’t be allowed to vote.”

 

Enjoy,

Stephen Kallestad

Northfield

January 21, 2012 – The Right Discussion (KCHK 1350AM)

Authored: January 20th, 2012 @ 10:11 AM

Today on KCHK radio (1350AM, or streaming live at www.kchkradio.net) the host will be Senator Al DeKruif  speaking with the new Senate Majority Leader, Senator David Senjem of Rochester.  Dave is always a great guest and it will be interesting to hear his take on the upcoming State Legislative Session which starts next Tuesday.  Don’t miss it today (Friday) at 12:15 pm!

Show time is 12:15p-12:45, Friday’s, on the dial at 1350AM or you can stream online at www.kchkradio.net.

Podcasts are available at www.kchkradio.net  of previous shows.

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