Georgians for the FairTax - Meetings by Congressional District

CD-04 FairTax Volunteers at Jan. 25 Meeting. From Left: Bryon Daily, Carolyn Fessenden, Chris Jordan, Terry Byrne and Brian Martin.

We had a very special guest at this meeting. Angela Bean! It was great! Our
attendance was however one of the smallest we've had.

Date: 1-25-06
Meeting Start time; 7:25pm
Attendance:
Angela Bean
Bryon Daily
Carolyn Fessenden
Chris Jordan
Brian Martin
Those not in attendance........................ WE MISSED YOU!

Hope to see you at next meeting because We would like to to stat appointing
people to different positions and forming our orginizational chart.

Angela shared with us a FairTax series that is running in the Fayette Daily News. The
article was submitted and ran as 3 different stories. I have in my possession
article 2 of 3. The other two parts are with two of the other team members. ( I
know Carolyn has one of them, she may have them both).

The suggestion was that we all go to our local papers and submit parts of the
article for printing. Bryon Daily and I (Brian Martin) discussed the two papers
in our area; "The Crossroads" and The Common Ground" We will work together on
that and see how we can get it printed.

The story Angela Bean submitted is on the front page with a headline "The FairTax" Over 5000 Fayette Countians have signed on to support movement."
Great Job Angela!

Angela shared with us that the National Group is going to release a new study
that covers 9 different Categories of how the FairTax will affect those areas,
(the list of categories were not available). This study should clear up or
answer some of the questions that have been floating around among FairTax
supporters and those who are still undecided. It should be out around Feb
28th.

It was pointed out that there has been (already) millions of dollars spent on
research and studies in order to make sure the FairTax is going to be the best
way to solve our Tax issues. With that knowledge, we should be confident that
the work we are putting into it and the time we spend supporting it, is well
worth the effort. We can be confident that it will work!

Along the same lines, The FairTax Book has a revision copy (paperback) being released and should be out around May. It too will address some questions that came up in several meetings. Look for your copy!

Terry Bryne is a Super star! He is the cousin of Gerald Ford. The Gerald
Ford!. He also has some very High Powered friends in very High Powered places..
He shared with us an exercise that he did concerning the money he spent and the
money he would have saved had the FairTax been in place. He is going to email
the instructions on how to do this exercise so we all can do it. It was very
eye opening. It will make you love HR 25 even more. It is gives you a visual.
Chris Jordan was asking what is the best way to get an audience with his big
bosses at his company. (He works for a very large company)

Terry Bryne suggested that we contact big companies like Chris's (small ones
too if they have a news letter) and make the request to submit an article in
their company news letter covering the FairTax. Great Idea Terry! We need to
assign someone as The Company News Letter Director.

Bryon Daily also suggest and E-mail News letter! another Great way to keep
information flowing. Perhaps we can start one for CD-04. We wil discuss.
Also, we discussed the Meeting Brandon was suppose to have attended on the
24th. UPDATE: Brandon Emailed and said the meeting went well We will request
meeting notes from him. (Brandon, if you would be so kind) :-)

Angela informed us that on Sandysprings Radio at www.radiosandysprings.com.
Phil Hinson the Fair Tax Georgia Director has a radio program on that covers
the FairTax (HR 25) at 4:00pm every Sunday PLEASE TUNE IN!

Angela had a drawing for a T-shirt she acquired and Chris Jordan won it.!
CONGRATULATIONS CHIRS!!!!!!!!!! I think we can buy these T-shirts - the link is on the home page of our website: www.patrioticdesigns.net

We took a photo and hugged and left.
The meeting ended at 8:45pm

We decided to change the day of the meetings from Wednesdays to Thursdays so
some those who go to Wednesday night Bible study can make the meeting. The next meeting:
THURSDAY FEBURARY 9TH, 2006
SAME LOCATOIN
7:00 PM
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Date: Jan. 11, 2006
Meeting started at 7:08
Submitted by: Brian Martin

In Attendance:
Terry Byrne
David Hanson
Lisa Carr
Dawn Gilmore
Bryon Daily
Earl Williams
Chris Jordan
Carolyn Fessenden
Jim Olson
Brian Martin
(Rich Jakielski, Brandon Sedgwick and Catherine Davis were all busy with other
important appointments)

We did not read the minutes from last meeting...(however were are very informal
and really did not plan on reading those minutes) If someone would care to do
so next meeting, just say the word.

We opened up by going around the room introducing everyone and allowing each person (As David Hanson suggested) tell why they are involved. By the time we completed, with the conversations we had from each persons introduction, we had complete the meeting... And had one main theme... "Build the group". The introductions started with Terry Bryne...

Terry is interested in debating tuff crowds and would like to have a face to
face conversation with CD 04 Congresswoman. He sees the Fair Tax as a chance to
help Corporate America. He would like to be one of the speakers. He thinks it
is important to Get a big base of supporters (we all agreed)

David Hanson also would like the opportunity to speak face to face with some
tuff opponents of the FairTax. He thinks education is a key factor to helping
people change their mind.

Lisa Carr also believes it is important to sway the congressmen /women in the
districts. She shared her communications with CD 4's office, informing us that
they are not really against it. They are just not sure at the time. CD 4
Congresswoman is reading the book now.

Dawn Gilmore shared that at her office someone had discussed the Fair Tax and
her office was very receptive. She was also excited about educating people
about the positive affect HR 25 would have on their lives.

Earl Williams shared a story that involved his kids College Fund... After
coming to the understanding what changes took place after President Reagan left
office... (Tax wise) He realized what a negative affect it had on the College
plans for his kids. As a result he started to make a few changes in political
views.. Among which the Fair Tax has played a big role in his life because he
sees the real value and how it will personally affect his and his children’s
life.

Chris Jordan "with much passion" shared how he wants to talk to everyone he
knows about the Fairtax because he knows what a difference it will make in his
and their life.

Carolyn Fessenden shared her encounter with the Fair Tax book and how it opened
her eyes and she could not believe how much since it made. She was (according
to Chris) a little angry when she found out about some of the things the book
revealed…. Ever since then, she has been a strong supporter of HR25. She was
also very passionate about getting the word out. She always has great ideas
about how to network with the people...

Bryon Daily shared he had a degree in Economics and HR 25 makes plenty of
since. He has strong feelings that education and focusing on the people by
educating them with simple facts will help encourage them into understanding.
He also explained we need to be careful how we present the information to
people. We don't want to bog them down with to much information (especially if
we are not clear on all of the answers) He wants to make sure that we are
giving accurate and helpful information that will win their trust...(Great
words Bryon).

Jim Olson very clearly agrees that education is going to be the key to getting
committed supporters.

Brian Martin (that's me) discussed the importance of being able to love them
into understanding. Not being standoff-ish. Building strong relationship is
going to be key to building strong group and committed members...
The groups main goal is to build a large support group and add numbers to the
our meetings.

The topic of Pre-FairTax Payroll and Post Fair Tax Payroll came up again today.
We discussed how companies will decide to handle payroll tax after the fact.
Dawn and Lisa was rather convincing in the fact that Pay checks should not
change a great deal... they might in fact go up in some cases...(depending on
the employer) I printed off the Neal Bortz information again and handed out to
the group to study…in their spare time.

Carolyn brought up an idea of Web Casting a few of our meetings or net meeting.
Allowing our group to grow with out having to increase our room size..(Great
Idea)

We are all going to bring someone to the next meeting in order to double the
group!

One other goal is to still identify groups we can talk to but really concentrate on one on one contacts.

Brandon, Lisa Carr will be the one to visit with you on your meeting that is
scheduled on the 24th of Jan...... Please get with her and confirm the date and
the time.... (Brian (I) will be busy with work on that day......)Meeting ended around 8:35pm

Next meeting is January 25th at 7:00pm same location

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Date: Dec 30th, 2005
Meeting Started at 5:39
Submitted by: Brian Martin
Also in attendance:
Jim Olson
Rich Jakielski
Carolyn Fessenden
Chris Jordan
(Brandon Sedgwick was on a plane returning to Atlanta)

Jim Olson introduced a promotion for April 15th.
MAKE APRIL 15TH MORE FUN THAN ANY OTHER DAY!
Standard TV fare in Atlanta on filing deadline day is the cars pulling up to the Buckhead post office to drop off their 1040s at the last minute.
Let's get a listing of ALL of the post offices that are open until midnight for this purpose, and then let's blanket them with FairTax info AND get some camera time for the cause. Besides literature, ideas included Miss Liberty and Patriot Costumes, and more interestingly, TEABAGS with FairTax info on the tags.
We need viral marketing like teabags evoking the Boston Tea party!

We discussed the Paycheck issue regarding Pre-Fair Tax Gross vs. Post Fair Tax Gross. (Will it equal the Pre-fair Tax Net? Carolyn and I went to the web and printed some information from the Neal Boortz web Page. Carolyn read the information to the group. We discussed setting up a meeting with a group of Company Owners to talk about how they would do their payroll different with the Fair Tax in place. (Pay Scales etc...)

We decided to all carry around a small note pad in order to log names, numbers and email of people we strike up conversations with. This will help us start to build a data base.

We also discussed the District -04 Redistricting that is going to take place.. All of the parties at the meeting will change to District -06 except for Brian Martin .......that's me :-)

We all had a great time; we laughed and bonded very well. What FUN!

We set up a second meeting with the rule that we all have to bring one new person to the table...

We ended the meeting at 7:00pm

Next meeting date: Wednesday Jan. 11th at 7:00pm.

Location: Four Concourse Parkway, Suite 300 Atlanta GA 30338

Directions: From Downtown Atlanta...North on I-75N to I-285E (toward
Greenville) and take the Glenridge Exit. (the exit after Roswell Rd). Turn left
at end of ramp onto Glenridge and go to Hammond Dr. Turn right onto Hammond Dr.
Take Hammond Drive down to Peachtree Dunwoody and Turn Right. After turning
right onto Peachtree Dunwoody make first right into the Concourse complex. Then
Make next right and then the next right and find a parking spot and come into
the front door.

Directions: From Downtown Atlanta North on I-85N to I-285W (toward
Chattanooga). Go to the Peachtree Dunwoody Exit (the exit after Ashford
Dunwoody). Turn Right at end of exit and go to the first light. Turn left into
the Concourse complex. After you turn make first right, and then make the next
right and find a parking spot. Come in the front door and I will meet you
there.

Brian Martin will meet all in the lobby to escort up to meeting room.

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