9-23 to 9-27-2019: Bill Meyer’s Blog

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Bill’s Guests: Thursday, September 26, 2019 – Live from Washington D.C. Day 1 of Hold Their Feet To The Fire, hosted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform

6:15: Lars Larson kicks off the show with Bill as we head into Day 2 of Hold Their Feet To The Fire, hosted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

6:35: Blanquita Cullum of The Alliance to End Human Trafficking joins Bill.

6:50: Maureen Maloney, mother of an Angel Family talks with Bill.

Maureen Maloney’s 23-year-old son, Matthew Denice, was killed on August 20, 2011 by an illegal alien who was drunk and driving without a license when he ran through a stop sign and collided with Matthew, who was on his motorcycle.  Matthew should have survived the collision with just abrasions and bruises.  However, while fleeing the scene, the illegal alien ran over Matthew causing him to become lodged under the truck.  Matthew was dragged a quarter of a mile to his death while horrified witnesses were banging on the truck and screaming for the driver to stop.

7:10: Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services chats with Bill.

Ken Cuccinelli began serving as the acting director of USCIS in June 2019, making an immediate splash at the agency that administers all naturalization and lawful immigration. In the past several months under Mr. Cuccinelli’s leadership, USCIS has issued some long awaited regulations to reform our legal immigration system and address widespread abuse of our asylum laws. Mr. Cuccinelli served as Virginia’s attorney general from 2010 to 2014. During his time as attorney general, he led Virginia from being amongst the worst states in fighting human trafficking to becoming one of the best. Additionally, he led efforts resulting in record enforcement against gangs, health care fraud, and child predators. Mr. Cuccinelli also served in the Senate of Virginia from 2002 to 2010 and has practiced law for nearly 25 years.

7:35: Brigitte Gabriel, Terrorism expert and chairwoman of ACT For America sits down and talks with Bill. Brigitte is also the author of the book, Rise: In Defense of Judeo-Christian Values and Freedom, which you can get for yourself by clicking the link.

ACT For America is the largest national security grassroots organization in the U.S. Brigitte lectures nationally and internationally about terrorism and current affairs. Her expertise is sought after by world and business leaders. A regular guest analyst on Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, and various radio stations daily across America, Brigitte is Founder and Chairman of ACT for America, the largest national security grassroots organization in the U.S. with one million members dedicated to preserving national security and promoting Western values. She is a NYT best-selling author of three books the latest is “RISE” In Defense of Judeo-Christian Values and Freedom.  Ms. Gabriel is named one of the top 50 most prominent speakers in America. She speaks Arabic, French, English, and Hebrew.

8:10: Stephen Guschov with Pro English talks with Bill.

As a legal immigrant himself, Stephen understands the importance of English as the unifying language of the nation.  As the head of the organization widely recognized as the nation’s top advocate of official English, Stephen can discuss how his organization works through the courts and in the court of public opinion to defend English’s historic role as America’s common, unifying language, and to persuade lawmakers to adopt English as the official language at all levels of government.

8:20: Ann Coulter, famous conservative pundit sits down with Bill.

One of the most well-known conservative commentators around, Ann Coulter is one of the nation’s biggest advocates of real immigration reform. Coulter has been a fierce advocate of regaining control of the nation’s borders and was an early supporter of President Trump.  In addition to innumerable television appearances and nearly every channel, Ann Coulter is the author of twelve previous books, all of them New York Times bestsellers, including most recently, Resistance is Futile! She lectures around the country, writes a nationally syndicated weekly column, and has 2 million fans on Twitter: @AnnCoulter

8:40: Michael Harrison, Editor of TALKERS Magazine chats with Bill to end the show.

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Bill’s Guests: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 – Live from Washington D.C. Day 1 of Hold Their Feet To The Fire, hosted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform

6:15: Dan Stein, President of the Federation for American Immigration Reform talks with Bill. Find out more over at FairUS.org

6:35: Congressman Mo Brooks, (R-AL) Recently, Rep. Brooks filed a lawsuit challenging the government’s current practice of counting illegal aliens in its official population numbers. Should the census include both legal and illegal residents—as it does now— Alabama will lose both a congressional seat and an Electoral College vote to states with large illegal alien populations. Brooks also weighs in on the impeachment issue.

7:10: Rick Manning, President of Americans for Limited Government chats with Bill today. Check out more from Rick at DailyTorch.com and today, what’s the deal with the impeachment talk?

7:20 Dave Ray of Federation for American Immigration Reform, reports on their current stay at the border, and a news breakdown of the “breakdown”.

7:40: Chris Chmielenski is the deputy director of Numbers USA, the nation’s largest grassroots immigration-reduction organization with more than 8 million participants in all 435 congressional districts.  Numbers USA provides a civil forum for Americans of all political and ethnic backgrounds to focus on a single issue, the numerical level of U.S. immigration.

8:10: Richard Valdemar, Retired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy chats with Bill. Through his career of 33 years, Richard fought gangs and gang violence. He’s an internationally recognized expert in both traditional and non-traditional gangs, having worked as a law enforcement trainer in a number of “gang” schools.  Prior to joining the LASD in 1970, he served three years as a Military Policeman both in the U.S. and abroad.

8:35: Dale Wilcox, Executive Director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute  Interested in talking about issues related to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s immigration record, sanctuary cities, birthright citizenship, the movement to abolish ICE, the impact of the Trump v. Hawaii decision, DACA, detention of illegal aliens at the border, citizenship question in the census, and protecting U.S. workers from abuse of foreign worker programs.

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The Bill Meyer Show with guest hosts Garth & Rosemary Harrington: Guests – Tuesday, September 24, 2019

8:10: Tom & Judy Smurzynski, Executive Directors of Walking Tall Southern Oregon talks with Garth & Rose in studio today.

Walking Tall provides compassionate life coaching to young men grade 7-12 by establishing permanent connections with Christian faith-based mentorship, and by building personal respect, integrity and character through job-readiness skills.

Kids are always looking for role models to imitate, but many are growing up without positive relationships where they have no good role models to follow. Our Walking Tall mentoring program provides young men long term authentic relationships with adults that form the foundation for healthy influence.

To learn more, give Tom a call at: 541-941-600.

PHONE: (Office): 541-664-6000

MAIL: P.O. Box 3789, Central Point, Oregon 97502

EMAIL: walkingtallsouthernoregon@gmail.com

ONLINE: WalkingTallSO.org

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Bill’s Guests: Monday, September 23, 2019

6:35 Judge Jeanine Pirro, Host on Fox News Channel and author of Radicals, Resistance, and Revenge: The Left’s Plot to Remake America chats with Bill.

Judge Jeanine Pirro is the host of Fox News’ Justice with Judge Jeanine and author of Radicals, Resistance, and Revenge: The Left’s Plot to Remake America.

Picking up where her #1 New York Times bestseller, Liars, Leakers and Liberals, left off, Judge Jeanine Pirro of Fox’s Justice with Judge Jeanine exposes the latest chapter in the unfolding liberal attack on our most basic values.

More on the book: www.amazon.com/Radicals-Resistance-Revenge-Remake-America/dp/1546085181/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=pirro&qid=1564971805&s=gateway&sr=8-1

BIO: Jeanine Pirro is the host of Justice with Judge Jeanine on the Fox News channel. Previously, she hosted Judge Jeanine Pirro, a syndicated court show for which she won an Emmy. In 1990, she was elected the first woman to sit on the Westchester County court bench. In 1993, she again made history as the first woman elected district attorney in Westchester. As a prosecutor, Pirro received national recognition for founding one of the nation’s first domestic violence units, and has tirelessly crusaded on behalf of the silent victims of violent crime.

Her FOX Show is here: video.foxnews.com/playlist/on-air-justice-with-judge-jeanine/

7:10 Outdoor Report with Greg Roberts from Rogue Weather.com

7:35: Jackson County Commissioner Colleen Roberts talks with Bill. Colleen is just back from Washington D.C. and an update on the county’s and fed response to wildfire, forest, and ecological policy.

8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers “What Made Southern Oregon Great”, and author of “Where Past Meets Present” available at www.HellGatePress.com and find out more about Dr. Powers at www.DennisPowersBooks.com

Butte Falls

By Dennis Powers

Much of Oregon once looked the way that tiny Butte Falls does today. The smallest incorporated town in Jackson County with 450 residents, Butte Falls is located some 40 miles northeast of Medford on the thick forested Big Butte Plateau in the Cascade Range.

Oregon’s vast forests didn’t attract much attention until the 1890s to 1900s, when the state possessed one half of all of the standing timber in the Pacific Northwest. When the forests of the Mid-West—such as in Michigan and Wisconsin—became over-logged, the sawmill companies looked elsewhere and bought up timberlands as around Butte Falls. Oregon’s main industry then became lumbering.

The Dewings Company in Reed City, Michigan, was one such company, and it purchased timberlands in 1901 near the falls on Big Butte Creek. When the company became known as the Butte Falls Sugar Pine Lumber Company, Bert Harris became its first head. He knew the potential of building a sawmill that would utilize the 15-foot falls at Big Butte Creek to power its operations. As the mill was being built, Harris started the planning to create a manufacturing town of 55 acres with a 300-foot plaza in its middle.

Bert Harris recorded the plat map of Butte Falls in 1905, and the town’s name came from its nearby falls. In 1906, the sawmill became operational and four years later, the Pacific and Eastern Railroad reached the town from Medford. No longer isolated with rough dirt roads, the train brought tourists, passengers, and mail from the Valley. Although the railroad stopped there, this allowed more people to settle in the growing town, along with the loggers and mill hands. By then, the town had a hotel, inn, grocery store, two billiard halls, hardware and barber shops, residences, and even an athletic club.

Over the next decades, Butte Fall’s fortunes were tied to the railroad and the different lumber companies that ran the operations. In the 1920s, the Owen-Oregon Lumber Company (based in Wisconsin) acquired thousands of more timber acres, built a spur east of Butte Falls, and logged pines to Mt. McLoughlin. Once in Butte Falls, the railroad transported the logs on the main line to its mill on Medford’s outskirts. Owen-Oregon became bankrupt during the Great Depression, and the Medford Corporation (“Medco”) in 1932 acquired those assets.

Although Butte Falls was not a company town, its fortunes fluctuated as these companies did—and times then were difficult. The need for timber products brought better times just before and after World War II. Medco terminated its railroad operations in the early 1960s to use cheaper “gyppo” loggers, or independent logging crews and truckers; however, the town still grew as Medco did and by the 1970s, the company was a vertically-integrated wood products firm, one of the 1,000-largest in the country.

Unfortunately, the boom ended when Harold Simmons acquired Medco in a hostile takeover during the 1980s. Known for his gaining control of companies and then selling off the assets for his profit, he did this with Medco. After harvesting the timber, the leveraged-takeout specialist sold off the lands and mills. As lumbering stagnated over time with the Oregon economy, environmental regulations, and federal restrictions, so did Butte Falls.

Residents today can drive to neighboring towns for their jobs, but the quaint, tiny town—with its mayor and city council—relies on tourists, hunters, and outdoorsmen for its fortunes. And its historical place in the Valley.

Sources: “Southern Oregon.com: Butte Falls, Oregon” at Butte Falls; Dennis M. Powers, “Bert Harris Builds Butte Falls, Ore.,” Jefferson Public Radio, September 30, 2009, at Role of Bert Harris; Jeff LaLande, “The Oregon Encyclopedia: Butte Falls,” at More on Butte Falls.

8:35: Filmmaker Mike Erwin and Galen Wrightjoin Bill in studio. Mike and Galen are looking for funding for their upcoming feature film Cayo – Warboy.

They’ve launched a campaign on Facebook last month. The campaign was HUGELY successful with over 500,000 people clicking through our ads and over 250,000 watched our two minute teaser. Then, with no explanation FB cut our ads off! We then appealed to FB, but got no (human) response. Only canned apologies and delays. After telling us that they would fix within 72 hours, after two weeks, we rebuilt a new page and launched again. Like the first time, we had another huge response but were once again cut off from our ability to run ads. So, right now, we are simply trying to drive people to our website www.cayowarboy.com to donate money if they like our project and our goals.