A Gunsmith's Guide to Metal Prep for Baking and Bluing

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BAXLEY WHIPS DEAN IN CITRUS CHRONICLE DEBATE

Dean fails to explain his past support for shipping Nature Coast water
to other areas of Florida or his support for early release of inmates.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 24, 2007 Contact: Corinne Mixon
Phone: (850) 766-5795

Crystal River — Tonight in a candidate forum hosted by the Citrus Chronicle, Speaker Pro Tem and State Senate candidate Dennis Baxley faced off with his opponent Charles Dean and scored an overwhelming victory on the issues.

The issues discussed included specific topics on property tax relief, education, gambling, water and protection of natural resources, and public safety. Baxley displayed the most knowledge on the issues and used the forum as an opportunity to validate his Republican credentials.

Key differences in opinions on policy emerged most definitively on the issues of water protection and public safety. Baxley pointed out Dean's past support for shipping water from the Nature Coast on barges to the rest of the state as well as his past support as Sheriff for early release of inmates. Dean was unable to come up with a specific defense for either issue.

"I think tonight that people saw differences between the two candidates that will help them vote in this special election," said senior consultant Tim Harding. "For Republican voters looking for a consistent conservative and passionate leader to represent them in the state senate, it is clear that Dennis Baxley is their only choice."

It is noteworthy that this is the second of two debates held in Citrus County that Baxley has attended. Last week, Dean skipped a candidate forum held in Marion County.

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The Baxley Spotlight

A Tale of the Trial Lawyers

"It has been my experience in politics that when you shine the light of transparency, the roaches usually scatter."
–Dennis Baxley

"I am disgusted by the lawyers. It's a sign of the times that everything has to get lawyered up in our country, that civil society is really under attack. And I think the people will reject it."
–Jeb Bush


CHARLES DEAN’S TRIAL LAWYER FRIENDS LIE ABOUT BAXLEY – AGAIN!


1. Yesterday, Conservative Citizens for Justice, a group sponsored by one of Tallahassee’s most powerful special interest groups – the trial lawyers, launched yet another untrue personal attack on Dennis Baxley.

2. The trial lawyers are afraid of Dennis Baxley because of his strong stands on the issues like lawsuit reform and his unwillingness to play the inside-Tallahassee power games.

3. Be on the alert! The trial lawyers are conspiring with Charles Dean to twist the truth and smear Dennis Baxley.

4. These accusations are unfounded. There is no doubt that the liberal special interests would rather have Charles Dean instead of Dennis Baxley to push their agenda in Tallahassee. The only special interest that Dennis Baxley represents is the voters of Senate District 3.


THE MAILER
Allegations: The Mailer said that Dennis Baxley’s business was charged with 556 violations and claim that Dennis ran an illegal cemetery and was accused of improper handling of trust funds. Furthermore, the mailer claimed that Baxley tried to change the laws to benefit his own business.
Fact #1: Dennis Baxley has a completely unblemished record as an honorable businessman and is respected by all of his peers.


Fact #2: The funeral services business is one of the most highly regulated businesses in the state of Florida. Regularly, audits are performed and recommendations made by the state to keep these businesses in compliance. Baxley’s businesses have always responded to these recommendations in a timely manner and have re-adjusted accordingly.


Fact #3: Dennis’s funeral services business has a stellar record for delivering on its product. It has never been censured by the state for mishandling a customer’s money or not delivering services.

Fact #4: Dennis’s business had one unlicensed cemetery because it existed prior to the licensure for cemeteries. After licensure for cemeteries was created, Dennis took the necessary steps to bring it into compliance with the new rules.

THE TRIAL LAWYERS AND CHARLES DEAN ARE DESPERATE!

Don't get caught up in the political mudslinging and the politics as usual coming from powerful special interest groups like the trial lawyers.

Call Charles Dean at his campaign office at (352) 560-6184 and tell him to stop lying about Republicans and sign the Clean Campaign Pledge.

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Tallahassee with the Downtown Rotary Club, and then drove to Madison to meet with Tommy Greene

I'm happy to report another great day on the campaign trail. We're in the home stretch, with just 13 days to go until the primary election. Today, I started with my interview at the Citrus Chronicle, which went very well. We discussed the issues that are near and dear to all of us in district 3: protecting of our water and natural resources, preserving our family values, and providing the right business climate for our small businessmen and women.

I had lunch in Tallahassee with the Downtown Rotary Club, and then drove to Madison to meet with Tommy Greene, a longtime activist and publisher. I was also able to meet with a group of supporters in Madison County and was greatly encouraged by their enthusiasm in this special election. I stopped in at Macclenny in Baker County, where I enjoyed meeting with Toppy Conner and Darryl Register, President of the Baker County Farm Bureau. The meeting couldn't have gone better; Darryl announced his personal endorsement of my candidacy, for which I am extremely grateful.

I was incredibly pleased to pick up another endorsement today. The Marion County Builders Association announced their endorsement of my candidacy this afternoon. Like them, I share their concerns on the need for property tax relief.

We're in the home stretch. In NASCAR terms, we're heading into Turn 4, and I can see the checkered flag waving in the distance. If we keep working hard, we can celebrate in the victory lane on June 5.

If you haven't been able to volunteer yet, I could use your help on the team. Please call 352-620-9293 if you need information on how to participate on the campaign. If you are interested in checking out where I stand on the issues or would like to make a donation, please go to www.dennisbaxley.org.

Thank you for all of your support.

Dennis

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comprehensive property tax relief

Keep up the good work, team.

We are really beginning to make progress. We received a strong outpouring of support everywhere I traveled today. We spent most of the day raising money although I did have the opportunity to meet with Associated Industries of Florida in their candidate interviews as well as meet with the Marion County Realtors. Of primary concern to both groups was the stability of our economy and job growth. I believe that the number one thing that we can do right now to keep our economy on track and our state on firm financial footing is to provide comprehensive property tax relief. Our homeowners need it. Our renters need it. Our growers and agricultural community need it. Our small businesses need it. We cannot allow this issue to get caught up in Tallahassee’s politics as usual. We have to be thoughtful about the issue, but I know that people are hurting, and we need to give them the relief from the property tax burden that they need.

On another note, I had the occasion to speak with a number of supporters today who are concerned that we protect the quality of our springs and water supplies in the central part of the state. I have made this one of my key priorities for this campaign, and I have worked hard in the past to do the same. I strongly believe that our rivers and springs and the Everglades are natural treasures that must be protected. It is a quality of life issue, and it is an economic issue. We live in the most wonderful place on the planet. Our responsibility is to be stewards of this state so that people will continue to want to visit us and so that our children and grandchildren can continue the same quality of life that we have enjoyed for generations to come.

If you haven't been able to volunteer yet, I could use your help on the team. Please call 352-620-9293 if you need information on how to participate on the campaign. If you are interested in checking out where I stand on the issues or would like to make a donation, please go to www.dennisbaxley.org.

Thank you for all of your support.

Dennis

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Baxley Calls on Opponent to Join Him in Signing Taxpayer Protection Pledge

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 22, 2007 Contact: Corinne Mixon
Phone: (850) 766-5795


Dunnellon — Today, Rep. Dennis Baxley, Speaker Pro Tem of the Florida House and Candidate for Senate District 3, called on his opponent former Democrat Charles Dean to join Baxley and the 1,187 state legislators across the nation who have signed the State Taxpayer Protection Pledge.

"I have been a long time supporter and signatory to the State Taxpayer Protection Pledge," said Baxley. "Americans for Tax Reform is a great organization that has supported low taxes for all Americans, and it concerns me that my opponent has never signed this important pledge.

"At a time when Republicans must present themselves with clear definition, I think nothing would be important than to commit to keeping taxes low. I encourage Charles Dean to take action immediately to show the voters of District 3 that he is committed to Republican principles."

Baxley has been a signatory to the State Taxpayer Protection Pledge as a member of the Florida House of Representatives, and has again signed the pledge as a candidate for state senate. The pledge can be found at www.atr.org.

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Baxley Wins Hometown Crowd; Dean Makes Costly Error

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 21, 2007 Contact: Corinne Mixon
Phone: (850) 766-5795


Ocala — Today, Rep. Dennis Baxley, Speaker Pro Tem of the Florida House and Candidate for Senate District 3, spoke at the candidates debate hosted by the Marion County Republican Executive Committee and laid out a platform of leadership, values, and optimism for the people in District 3.

Baxley's opponent, former Democrat Charles Dean, failed to show up for the debate.

"What a great night," said Baxley. "I enjoyed the opportunity to once again connect with the people of Marion County, and emphasize the issues that we all care about, such as halting the expansion of gambling in our state, protecting our water, and defending our family values and our Constitutional freedoms."

Baxley enjoys widespread support throughout the senate district and has been endorsed by 19 local elected officials in Marion County. No other candidate has received a single endorsement from an elected official in Marion County, which has more Republican voters than any other county in District 3.

"Tonight, every Republican in Marion County saw the writing on the wall," said Stan McClain, Chairman of the Marion County Commission. "When Dean can't find time to come to Marion County when he's a candidate, how would he ever find time as a senator? The die has been cast."

"Apparently, my opponent hasn't looked at the district lines very closely," said Baxley. "He's going to be surprised on election day when he learns that 65 percent of the voters in District 3 live outside Citrus County."

In addition to the endorsements from the local elected officials in Marion County, Baxley enjoys the support of Sen. Steve Wise and Sen. Carey Baker, Rep. Frank Attkisson, the National Rifle Association, Florida Right to Life, and Republican leaders throughout Senate District 3.

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Palmer Pendleton at the Silver Springs Shores Country Club, in Ocala, Florida

Thank you for your ongoing hard work. I got in so late on Friday and Saturday nights that I did not have a chance to keep you updated. Here is a little sampling of what we did over the past couple of days – with a lot of help from you.

We joined Palmer Pendleton at the Silver Springs Shores Country Club, in Ocala, for a golf tournament to benefit the Susan G. Komen foundation to fight breast cancer. We had an enjoyable visit with the golfers before the tournament started.
We visited John McIsaac, vice-president of the North Suncoast Republican club. We met with local Republicans to discuss the election and the differences between me and my opponents.

I spoke at a candidate's forum at the Yankeetown-Inglis Republican club meeting at the local Lions Club. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to open the meeting with prayer. There, we visited with Republican State Committeewoman Edith McCrimmon and State Committeeman C.W. Gilbert and their distinguished Republican friends from all around the county.
I spoke at a graduation ceremony for homeschoolers, a truly moving experience to celebrate the great accomplishments of these young people.
I was honored to take part with Gaye Stokes, president of the Citrus County Right to Life, and with many of our pro-life friends, in their annual fundraising banquet at First Baptist Church of Inverness.
On Sunday morning, I attended services at Seven Rivers Presbyterian Church in Lecanto, and later that morning, at First Baptist Church of Crystal River. In the evening, I attended First Baptist Church of Beverly Hills. Both services were excellent, and I deeply appreciated the opportunity to worship with the people of Citrus County.
I am really looking forward to the next two weeks of campaigning, but I cannot win if I try to do it alone.

I need your help – not just your vote – but some real honest shoe leather help. We are walking precincts every day for the last two weeks of the campaign, and I would be honored to have you knock on a door or make a phone call.

Please call if you need information on how to participate. If you are interested in checking out where I stand on the issues or would like to make a donation, please go to www.dennisbaxley.org.

God bless you for all your help,

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The speech George W. Bush SHOULD give:

Normally, I start these things out by saying "My Fellow Americans..."

Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you're really not fellow Americans any longer.

I'll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: there's been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office. The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people.

I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really going on in the world. Or of what's going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.

Let's start local. You've been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank, and that's despite record numbers of homeowners including record numbers of MINORITY homeowners. While we're mentioning minorities, I'll point out that minority business ownership is at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton Administration. I've mentioned all those things before, but it doesn't seem to have sunk in.

Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there's increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beach front property than your economic security.

We face real threats in the world. Don't give me this "blood for oil" thing. If I was trading blood for oil, I would've already seized Iraq's oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell, and don't give me this 'Bush Lied, People Died' crap either. If I was the liar you morons take me for, I could've easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be 'discovered.' Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty. Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you, regime change in Iraq , was official US policy before I came into office. Some guy named ' Clinton ' established that policy. Bet you didn't know that, did you?

You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to outspend and out-tech them.

That's not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don't care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That'd be fine, as long as they weren't also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can, but; they are. They want to kill you, and the bastards are all over the globe.

You should be grateful that they haven't gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11, but; you're not. That's because you've got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I'm disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of 'Survivor'.

Instead, you've grown impatient. You're incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops.

Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign, well, dammit, you might just as well Fedex a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.

In this day and age, it's easy enough to find the truth. It's all over the Internet. It just isn't on the pages of the New York Times or on NBC News. Even if it were, I doubt you'd be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol.

I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, but; you're too stupid to leave a city that's below sea level and has a hurricane approaching. I could say more about your insane belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from, but; I've come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads.

So I quit. I'm going back to Crawford.

I've got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I'm done here, pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.

Oh, and by the way, Cheney's quitting too. ,That means Pelosi is your new President. ,You asked for it. ,Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there're just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008.

So that's it. ,God bless what's left of America .
Some of you know what I mean.

The rest of you, ?????????.

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