CARMA PRESIDENT ’S LETTER from President Terry Ricks April-May 2026
Dear CARMA Members and other Honorable Conservative Gentlemen,
Please join us and bring your buddies to our monthly CARMA luncheons and events. We have a new reservation procedure. Register early for our April 16th Fat Tuna luncheon by emailing our Treasurer Rudy Knepper rudeyes45@gmail.com. Reservations require an email to Rudy. Pay at the room entrance. Senator Diggs, Senator McDougle and WJCCRC Chairman Vinnie Passero will be our speakers.
For 25 years, CARMA has had great fun-filled informative monthly luncheons with speakers on various topics such as: local, state, national politics, health care, history, local government operations and technology. Our local office holders and candidates, and other interesting speakers are always on our schedule. Interesting open discussions continue. CARMA donates to Republican candidates smartly.
We also meet up on weekends to talk politics with great insightful conversation and wisdom, some beer, tea, soda and delicious food. Most attendees don’t drink beer. The happy hours are social and we are watching our waistlines. Families welcomed. Contact me with a meeting location suggestion.
Jeff Ryer, our longtime member and District One Chairman has been elected Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia. Wow. He will be one of our speakers at the fundraising dinner at Colonial Heritage at 6pm along with John Reid, long time Richmond radio host and podcaster. John should have won the Lt. Governor race. Who won? I never heard of her. The dinner fundraiser is for the VOTE NO Campaign. Please buy tickets today. See CARMAgop.com for more details.
Watch Chairman Jeff Ryer’s appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room - March 24 show at
https://rumble.com/v77kpe4-ryer.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
Here are some good events you may want to attend:
Tuesday each week The Breakfast Club at Sandy’s Pancakes every Tuesday, 8:00-9:30 am.
Wed. April 22 - 6:30-8:30 next WJCCRC Comm Meeting at the JCC Recreation Center.
CARMA Happy Hour in April. Probably April 25 or 26th If interested, send President Terry an email at trix598@aol.com or call him at 202-494-8161. We have a great time with lunch, soft drinks, and beer.
After the horrible April 21 redistricting vote, the Dims will continue to resurrect many of the 400 proposed bills that Gov. Youngkin vetoed. First up, they will focus on affordability by raising the minimum wage, making employers, large and small offer more sick leave and childcare, helping low income residents with affordable housing and lowering heating costs for low income Virginians. They also will try to amend the state constitution to guarantee abortion access and gay marriage. More gun ownership restrictions have already been passed. The AR rifle is their main target. They will increase the power of the unions and oppose the National Right to Work. Businesses will leave. The commercial climate will be degraded. Please contact our local Dim officials and ask for details about their plans and how these expanded programs will be funded. Follow lis.virginia.gov and www.VPAP.org
A new CARMA program…CARMA has started a new donation subscription program, the CARMA Subscription Club. It was inspired and designed by our Treasurer Rudy Knepper. We want hundreds of donors, male and female, to donate $5 or $10 each month automatically. We can raise thousands of dollars which will really help our candidates, especially the new ones. The annual CARMA bundling project will also continue with its different format. Please contact Treasurer Knepper at 804-210-0822 rudeyes45@gmail.com for information and to subscribe.
Contact me anytime for more info about our Republican advocacy projects and events at trix598@aol.com or 202-494-8161. Visit CARMA’s great website www.carmagop.com See the articles, photos, and humor and the Virginia Republican Creed. Use the monthly luncheon reservation form. Also email Rudy Knepper with your meal selection. Pay at the door.
Please visit the CARMA award winning website weekly www.carmagop.com, updated weekly.
Question for all …what are YOU doing over the next month to help our Republican candidates?
Examples: donations, door knocking, calling, postcards, signs, stickers, poll watching, tent staffing, election officer, rallies, Gazette letters, convincing friends/family? Early voting has begun.
Let’s discuss your ideas and suggestions ! Join the official WJCC Republican Committee. Their monthly meetings are the fourth Wednesday of each month. www.wjccrc1.org
Respectfully from Terry Ricks, CARMA President , 202-494-8161 trix598@aol.com
Annoy a liberal - get a job, succeed and be happy !
Democrats want more socialism. Republicans want more capitalism and freedom.
The problem with political jokes is too many get elected.
MAJOR CONCERNS
- The UNFAIR Gerrymandering Amendment GO VOTE NO
- JCC Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to raise our property taxes by 21% last cycle and is considering raising them up to 11.8% this year. Public Hearing with JCC BOS April 14.
- Ask the WJCC School Board why they are subsidizing failure by giving 50% grades for assignments not turned-in instead of enforcing standards.
- JCC BOS rammed through a $189M+ County Admin Center (not including the cost of the roundabouts and roadwork to support the new office structure or interest) plus a $50M (or $25M) library plus road improvement.
- JCC Board of Supervisors is raising our water/sewer rates by 57% over 5 years.
- JCC BOS is exploring raising the meals tax another 2 cents. Tax on restaurant meals would become almost 13%.
- School administrators wants to raise the school budget despite flat enrollment.
- Richmond Dims are passing more gun control laws, ignoring the 2nd Amendment. Study the bills and buy more guns and ammo now. Guns Save Lives. Outlaw idiots, not guns.
OBAMACARE Since the ACA's enactment, the combined revenue of the top health insurers has grown from approximately $245.2 billion in 2010 to over $1.1 trillion by 2021, driven by factors like mergers, acquisitions, and a surge in government-funded programs. Our premiums have increased. The ACA is a costly disaster but the health insurance companies are very happy.
Speaking of deceitful, stupid, costly programs. The JCC BOS is moving ahead with their $250 million approx loan so they can build a large county offices complex. There should have been a referendum.
Virginia Delegate Wren Williams summed up the recent Richmond legislative circus….
The Dims are in complete control and bottom line: They took more from your paycheck, made it harder to own property, eliminated your gun rights, blocked immigration enforcement, rigged the congressional map, and drove your energy bills up — then they left without passing a budget.
Governor Abigail Spanberger’s rebuttal broadcast after President Trump’s SOTU address. She said “He did what he always does, he lied, he scapegoated and he distracted, and he offered no real solutions to our nation’s pressing challenges, so many of which he is actively making worse. Is he working to make life more affordable for you and your family? Is he working to keep Americans safe, both at home and abroad? Is the president working for you?” The Dims all say NO but we know the answers are definitely YES. These are truly ridiculous deceptive comments and questions by our Governor. The Dims ignore President Trump’s amazing, long overdue accomplishments in his first year back in office: closing the southern border, arresting/deporting the worst illegal criminals/murders, disrupting/confiscating massive amounts of deadly drugs, destroying the narco-state Venezuela regime, destroying the decades old Iranian Mullahs terrorist nation and nuclear threat, massive income tax cuts for working Americans and hundreds of $billions of foreign investment and jobs in America.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio - His great statements and reminders from his recent Munich Security Conference Speech : He said “the United States and Europe, we belong together as one civilization and must reunite against the countries that wish to destroy us culturally, politically, and militarily. It was here in Europe where the ideas that planted the seeds of liberty that changed the world were born.” He reviewed the amazing exchange of cultural strengths, philosophies, laws, discoveries and technologies that has elevated Western civilization. He discussed how America and free Europe united and successfully fought multiple World Wars. He highlighted the destruction that has resulted from weakened underfunded armed forces, open borders and mass uncontrolled migration. He criticized the anemic anti-West United Nations. He said “This is the path that President Trump and the United States has embarked upon. It is the path we ask you here in Europe to join us on. We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength.”
EDUCATION SUCCESS IN COLORADO… in 2007 graduation and dropouts rates were 39% and 10% respectively … then school choice was approved and supported around 2010 … then in 2022 the school system reported a 76% graduation rate and a 4% dropout rate. Home schooling has become a great alternative too.
RECENT UNBELIEVABLE STANCES BY THE FEDERAL DEMOCRATS IN WASHINGTON DC…
They said they would restrict DHS or ICE funding unless the southern boarder is open and ICE arrests/deportations are stopped. They are against the SAVE ACT requiring proper identification and proof of American Citizenship in order to vote.
GOOD NEWS IN FORT WORTH, TEXAS … Eight ANTIFA defendants were convicted of supporting terrorists. One was also convicted of attempted murder of an ICE officer.
REMEMBER PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY’S: “ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU…ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY”
