'Great TOM FOLEY VIDEO Entitled:"FALSE"--In Response TO DAN MALLOY SHENANIGANS' By Reverend Barbara Sexton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNijKGFN8bc&feature=player_embedded
Dear Readers:
     Watch this great video by TOM FOLEY, candidate and my choice for Connecticut Governor!
     Excellent points, well taken, I would say.  Most distressing of all is the apparent 'willingness of the MALLOY Campaign' to...shall we say, be less than truthful?
     I wonder what Malloy's NEXT contrived tactic against Tom will be?
God Bless You and God Bless America
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com 

"Jeff Wright For CT Treasurer: Denise Nappier Has To GO!" By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbswNREjF9M&feature=player_embedded

I am running for State Treasurer because I want my three young children to want – and be able – to live in Connecticut when they grow up.


We have serious economic challenges and I want to help a Republican Governor stop the spending and borrowing that has led to record deficits. As State Treasurer, I can bring my professional and government experience to help erase the red ink and help get Connecticut’s fiscal house in order.


Our State Pension System is in financial crisis! On July 23, 2010, The Hartford Courant's editorial board had this to say;


"It could require a taxpayer funded bailout."


"The pension fund is on a fast train toward insolvency. In its last full actuarial valuation, the fund had $19.2 billion worth of obligations but held just under $10 billion in assets, or about 52 percent of its liability."


"According to a recent study by Northwestern University, as reported by the Connecticut Mirror's Keith M. Phaneuf, Connecticut's state employee pension fund will be broke by 2019, or even sooner if the assumed 8 percent return on investments is not realized."


"Connecticut is one of seven states whose pension funds will run out of money by 2020, according to the study. By 2025, funds in 20 states will be under water. By 2030, 31 state pension funds will be broke."


(Source) The Hartford Courant


We cannot keep using the Treasury as a credit card without limits. We need to close the state’s purse tight, stop the endless borrowing and start to rebuild our assets so our unfunded obligations do not further erode our state’s ability to be competitive.
http://www.wrightforct.com

'MA Sen. Scott Brown, NJ Gov. Christ Christie & LA Gov Bobby Jindal CAMPAIGN FOR FOLEY' By Reverend Barbara Sexton

NATIONAL LEADERS CAMPAIGNING FOR FOLEY IN FINAL WEEKS

With public opinion polls showing the race as “too close to call” a number of well known and highly respected Republican leaders are coming to Connecticut to campaign for Tom Foley as Election Day nears.

Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown supports Team Foley-Boughton

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie supports Team Foley-Boughton

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal supports Team Foley-Boughton

and have all agreed to come to Connecticut in the next two weeks to lend their support to

CT Governor Candidate TOM (& LESLIE) FOLEY and

Lt. Governor candidate MARK BOUGHTON, current Mayor of DANBURY
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FROM TEAM FOLEY-BOUGHTON:
“Tom has been campaigning hard and voters are beginning to distinguish the clear difference in direction he offers when compared with Dannel Malloy,” said Justin Clark, campaign manager for Tom Foley. “Tom has a plan to balance the state budget without raising taxes so Connecticut employers can begin to focus their efforts on creating and growing jobs. Dannel Malloy has a record of over-spending and raising taxes as mayor of Stamford and we can expect more of the same from him if he is elected governor. He has already proposed at least a half billion dollars in spending the state simply cannot afford. Voters are beginning to take sides and they are standing with Tom.”
Details of the visits by Brown, Christie and Jindal will be released in the coming days.
www.tomfoley2010.com
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     How WONDERFUL and how EXCITING that some of America's finest LEADERS are LENDING THEIR SUPPORT to TOM FOLEY & MARK BOUGHTON.
     We say  THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, Senator BROWN, Gov. CHRISTIE and Gov. JINDAL!  Surely we are blessed.
God be praised!
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

'PRAYERS TODAY FOR TOM FOLEY BEFORE HIS DEBATE TONIGHT' By Reverend Barbara Sexton www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

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PRAYER FOR TOM FOLEY & TEAM BEFORE THE OCTOBER 5, 2010 GUBERNATORIAL DEBATE TONIGHT

Please join me in prayer for TOM today...those of you who are so inclined:
LET US PRAY:
Lord, we come to you with thanks for giving us 'clear vision' and determination to make things better for our state, our country and our world, today.

We know the road ahead will be difficult and thus we ask that your steadfast Love guide us at all times and in all ways.  Help us with your great Wisdom.

As those of us with more daunting tasks to bear move forward, be with us.  Enable us to never stoop to the level of those who oppose us and ever remind us to never bear false witness under any circumstances. 

Especially shelter, protect, equip and embolden our brother Tom Foley this day and evening as he prepares for his debate for the Governorship of the State of Connecticut. 

In this 'One Nation Under God', please help Tom and those of us on his 'team' to prevail against their 'detractors' under all circumstances.  May we remember to be merciful to all, if we, ourselves, expect to have your Mercy, dear Father.

In the 'Land of the Free BECAUSE of the Brave', have us remember to honor and cherish every single life...especially those who love liberty and freedom.

And finally, please, dear God, uplift our Tom to the elected position we all need him to be in so that our state and nation may be restored to it's former glory.

We pray these things in the traditions of our individual heritages, united fully in our love for You.
AMEN.

With Love in Christ,
Reverend Barbara Sexton
http://www.dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

FROM TOM: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000919424310#!/thomascfoley
Join Team Foley-Boughton this Tuesday in Danbury to watch me debate Dannel Malloy at The Bushnell. Stop by for food and phonebanking. Contact Chris Syrek and tickets. Hope to see you there! Can’t make it? Watch me talk about my plan for Connecticut live on Fox CT at 7 PM, tonight.-TOM

CSyrek@tomfoley2010.com for more information
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'6 WAYS TO COMMIT VOTER FRAUD at SBC Restaurant & Brewery, Stamford, TONIGHT Oct 4 7-9 pm' By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

MONDAY, OCTOBER 4



Regular Monday Night Meeting


back at SBC Restaurant and Brewery


131 Summer Street


Stamford CT


7-9pm


Open discussion from 7-8pm


THEN from 8-9pm...


6 WAYS TO COMMIT VOTER FRAUD


A presentation by Fred DeCaro and Lucy Corelli


Greenwich and Stamford Republican ROVs share there expertise on a topic near and dear to their hearts. Lucy had hands on experience unraveling a costly voter fraud exposure in Stamford during the 2008 election.


Learn how to detect and prevent voter fraud. How do they do it? And what can you do to stop them from stealing your vote?

The buck stops here.
DON'T MISS THIS ONE!  VOTER FRAUD AFFECTS US ALL!--Rev. Barb
PROUD MEMBER OF THE TEA PARTY PATRIOTS!
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
http://www.dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/

'Rev. Barb Joke Corner Original: A Tea Party Joke' By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross" & TEA PARTY PATRIOT

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A FUNNY TEA PARTY JOKE
I think
by Rev. Barb

Sooooo.....The other day my husband says, "You've been working too hard lately.  Why don't you take a night off and we'll go out for some dinner and dancing?"
     Not one to turn down a terrific invitation like that, I say, "Sure...Why not?"
     So we go to a local place we like, order dinner and while waiting for it, hubby and I get up to dance and he accidentally steps on my toe.
      I couldn't HELP myself.
     I couldn't help myself and YELPED--

(wait for it.....).....)

(wait for it... : P~~~...)

"HEY, WOULD YOU MIND 

 NOT TREADING ON ME???"

And that's all I've got for now.
And if you're lucky, I won't come up with any more : )

Rev. Barb

http://www.dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/

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"DOES DAN MALLOY HAVE A PROBLEM TELLING THE TRUTH?-Tom Foley & All Of Us Want To Know'' By Reverend Barbara Sexton

courtesy www.GospelGifs.com   God Bless You, Jim Sutton

"³¹So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' ³²For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."

— Jesus Christ, Matthew 6:31-33 (NIV) 

UPDATE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/12/samuel-l-jackson-obama-vote-black_n_1271797.html
Dear Ones:
      Sometimes it's the 'small things' that really get to us.  What may seem to be small matters to some, can be a VERY BIG DEAL to others.  Sometimes, solitary issues can even impel us to think about doing things we really shouldn't do.  And in some cases, we actually 'go through with it' and SAY or DO things that just are not right for anyone to utter or act upon. 
     Such is the case, especially, in POLITICS.  Emotions and 'good intentions' run high and we can all get 'caught up' in making our cases. 
     It's a 'stickey-wicket', alright, especially since in the sense of 'absolute truth', God is and will ever be our Judge in the end, and no one else.  Until such time, the best we can do is to NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS, EVER.
     This is easier said than done, because man's inclination is to push the limits.  Many people think that Scripture tells us 'not to judge'.  Actually, we are told that we may judge, just so long as we hold ourselves to the same criteria with which we judge others.  JESUS SAID,

1 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.  Mt 7:1-2  (NIV)
http://www.biblestudytools.com/matthew/7.html
     Yet here is a modern-day example of how the emotions of politics can obfuscate people's abilities to discern between the truth and the 'non-truth' and between what they can say and what they should say:
DOES DAN MALLOY HAVE A PROBLEM TELLING THE TRUTH? From TOM FOLEY CANDIDATE FOR CONNECTICUT STATE GOVERNOR

September 15th, 2010
Dan Malloy’s latest taxpayer funded negative ad is untruthful and begs the question whether Malloy is loose with the truth.
THE FACTS ARE THESETom Foley saved the Bibb Company, a struggling textile company, he bought in 1985. Bibb employed over 3,000 more people in 1996 when he sold the business than when he bought it. There were never 2,000 jobs lost and Tom Foley never fired anyone at Bibb. When he sold the company he ensured that workers’ pensions and medical benefits were protected. When the new owners closed a plant in Columbus, Georgia two years later, Tom had nothing to do with the business. Tom Foley never made $20 million from the Bibb Company.
Dan Malloy is not only not being truthful about Tom Foley’s record, he has been caught in a lie about his own record. In his latest ads Dan Malloy claims he created thousands of jobs in Stamford, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics disagrees. According to Chris Keating of the Hartford Courant, the BLS shows that Stamford has lost 13,000 jobs since 2000 and has 5,000 fewer jobs than when Dan took office in 1995.
“On the campaign trail Dan Malloy says if he is governor he will tell us the truth. If that’s the case, he’s off to a very bad start. Dan’s misrepresenting my background and being caught in lie about his own seriously call into question his qualifications to be Governor.”“Character counts in Connecticut. More than ever, Connecticut needs strong leadership it can trust. Dan Malloy’s latest ads sound like a typical career politician who will do and say anything to get elected. Connecticut needs more than that in its next Governor to set a new direction for the state, bring jobs and the economy back, and solve our daunting fiscal crisis without raising taxes,” said Tom Foley.
http://www.tomfoley2010.com/?p=2229
     Calling someone 'a liar' is a rough thing to do.  As such, you've got to be SURE, knowing that YOU will be held accountable yourself, for what you do and say.   Just fyi, in this 'Bibb' matter which I've been following and looking into for a while, I'm pretty certain that what's being flung at Tom Foley stems more from 'union politics' than anything else, but what do I know? 
     I'm just a political 'newbie' from the Obama/Wright church making my way through the political morass afoot this election year.
     Is Dan Malloy 'lying' about Tom Foley and Bibb?  I sure hope not.  Maybe the heat of the moment just got the best of Dan, for surely no good can come from a political strategy based on outright lies. 
     Not only is it wrong to bear false witness against political opponents, but lying about that which is readily verifiable just makes one look 'weak and silly'. 
    CT is an abysmal place for corporations.  I feel certain that Tom Foley along with Mark Boughton are the guys to get this state in order.
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
http://www.dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/

    

'Tom Foley's Education Plan for Connecticut' Posted By Reverend Barbara Sexton www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

http://www.tomfoley2010.com/?p=2217 

Tom Foley's Education Plan for Connecticut



In addition to being the Jobs Governor, Tom Foley would like to be the Education Governor because he believes every child in Connecticut deserves a good education and he knows how important our schools are to the economic future of our state.

Connecticut faces serious challenges in its K-12 educational system. We are trailing behind our neighboring states in academic achievement, and, shamefully, we have the largest achievement gap in the country.

Every two years the U.S. Department of Education conducts the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which assesses student achievement across the nation for 4th and 8th grade students in reading and mathematics. The most recent NAEP results from 2009 show that most of our neighboring states, including Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Hampshire and Vermont, are outperforming Connecticut in student achievement. In fact, Massachusetts now ranks first in the nation in reading and mathematics for 4th and 8th graders. This is noteworthy because Massachusetts and Connecticut had nearly identical NAEP rankings in the mid-1990’s, are demographically similar, and spend the same amount per pupil. Policies adopted in the mid-1990’s allowed Massachusetts to make significant gains in their NAEP rankings over Connecticut and the rest of the country.


The 2009 NAEP also confirms that Connecticut has the unfortunate distinction of having the largest achievement gap of all 50 states. The performance of our 8th grade students who are eligible for free or reduced priced lunch is three full grade levels behind our 8th grade students who are not eligible for the lunch program. Connecticut has had the largest achievement gap in the country in both mathematics and reading in 2005, 2007 and 2009. Our large achievement gap is confirmed by the results of the state’s annual assessments given to students in grades 3 through 8 and in grade 10. Free or reduced price lunch students account for 25% of our K-12 student population, or over 140,000 children.


Connecticut can and must do better. We are failing too many of our students and impairing our state’s ability to compete in the 21st century economy. We should strive to be the best in the country, and do so for each and every demographic group. Massachusetts’ success and common sense tell us that with better policies and leadership from the top we can do much better.

Plan for Action


1. Leadership from the top.
Tom Foley will make improving Connecticut’s schools a top priority of his administration. He will set an ambitious goal of replacing Massachusetts as the state with the highest scoring NAEP students and he will significantly narrow the achievement gap during his administration. Tom will create a sense of urgency within state government about the importance of this challenge and will link all government policy to ensuring that his education goals are met.


2. Appoint reform-minded people to the Board of Education
The next Governor will appoint a majority of the members of the State Board of Education. Tom will appoint members who are reform-minded and who share his vision, goals and sense of urgency about improving Connecticut’s schools. He will appoint board members who are focused on the needs of students and improving school and student performance. Tom will appoint members to the Board who concur that we need a reform-minded and action-oriented Commissioner of Education who will:
- Set rigorous academic standards for the state and develop accompanying standards-based assessments.
- Implement accountability frameworks for schools and districts including closing or taking over chronically under performing schools and appointing new Boards of Education in under performing districts.
- Develop a statewide system for tracking longitudinal data related to student achievement, teachers, schools and districts and making this data publicly available on a timely basis.

3. Ensure that all Connecticut teachers and principals are excellent
Student performance is very closely correlated to the quality of teachers and principals. Connecticut has many excellent teachers and principals, but we must make sure that every student in Connecticut has excellent teachers and an excellent principal.
Tom will implement policies that require the following:
- Regular assessments of teacher and principal effectiveness that, rather than seniority, determine who is promoted and how much people are paid
- Teachers and principals who are ineffective will be given the opportunity for professional development, but if they remain ineffective they will not be allowed to remain in the system.
- Eliminate the barriers to attracting great teachers and principals by continuing to expand certification routes for teachers and principals and by extending full reciprocity on teacher and principal certification with other states.

4. Give parents a choice of other public school options when a school isn’t performing
School choice is essential to developing excellent schools statewide. In school districts where a public school doesn’t meet minimum performance standards, the state should require that there be other public school options for parents, such as a charter or magnet school or the opportunity to attend a public school outside of the district.
School choice fosters competition that will favor those schools that are performing well and allow them to grow and will curtail those that are under performing. In addition, competition improves student achievement, an effect that has been found to be very strong over the past decade in Florida and other locales that have made expanded school choice a feature of their reform strategies.


5. Maintain state current levels of state funding, but reform how those funds are allocated
Public education in Connecticut is funded through a combination of local property taxes and state grants to districts, magnet schools, technical schools and charter schools. On average, K-12 spending in Connecticut is among the highest in the country at $13,000 per pupil. Although proportions vary significantly from town to town, on average 38% of the spend comes from the state, 58% from local property taxes and 4% from the federal government. Spending in the poorest 20% of districts is about equal with the spending of the wealthiest 20%, indicating that overall funding levels are reasonably consistent across districts. The good news is that Connecticut has been spending at a level high enough to achieve Tom’s goals and we have achieved a high level of funding equity across the state.


The bad news is that the current funding system is complex, opaque and has created a number of inefficiencies and other problems that impede the state's ability to achieve Tom's vision and goals. For example,
- Connecticut is paying for a student who attends a magnet or charter school but is not reducing the financial grant to the district that is no longer educating that student. In addition, the state’s Open Choice program funds students choosing to attend schools in neighboring districts with approximately $2,600 to the serving district while 100% of the state and local education funds related to that student remain in the home district. Thus, in many cases, the state is paying twice to educate the same student.
- Charter schools are underfunded and only receive 75% of the average per pupil allocation from the state, even though many of these schools are among the best performing schools in Connecticut.
- Adequate funding is not being provided in many cases for children who need additional resources to succeed academically (i.e. poor children, English language learners, and children with disabilities).
A funding system where money follows the child and where each child brings the appropriate amount of financial resources with him or her creates a powerful incentive for schools/districts to attract and retain students since successfully doing so will directly contribute to their resource base. Conversely, failing to attract or retain students will decrease their resource base and may ultimately lead to closure. School choice combined with money following the child will result in funding going to schools that are performing well and away from schools that are failing, an essential “market” element of improving schools statewide.


6. Modify some structural aspects of our school system
Tom will instruct his education appointees to pursue implementation of key structural reforms across the state:
- Building on the State Board of Education’s recent adoption of the Common Core standards for math and English language arts, ensure that Connecticut updates its academic standards to an equally rigorous level across all grades and subject areas, beginning with math and science.
- Working in concert with other states that have joined the Common Core standards initiative, ensure that Connecticut makes the most of federal and philanthropic funds to develop new state assessments matched to the state’s new academic standards and capable of accurately measuring students’ academic growth across all grades and subject areas.
- Replace the current patchwork quilt of district and state data sources by implementing a single longitudinal data system that tracks individual student achievement, teacher performance, school performance and district performance and provides all users real-time access to the data. Such a system must also be integrated with the state’s higher education institutions and be capable of tracking student outcomes into the labor market.
- Building on the existing statutory and regulatory framework develop a comprehensive statewide accountability framework for students, educators, schools and districts that, at each level, defines success and failure and establishes appropriate rewards and corrective action when needed.
- End social promotion in grade 3 for students who earn the lowest score on the state’s annual standardized test (retention must include a remedial program rather than mere repetition of the grade).
- Require students to pass an exam (or a series of end of course exams) to graduate from high school, and offer early graduation and/or free in-state college tuition to students who can demonstrate outstanding competency
- Introduce an A through F grading system for schools with defined consequences (e.g. closure, takeover or other intervention) for failing schools.
- Set-up a triage system where the State Department of Education’s oversight and intervention focuses on school districts that are performing poorly and leaves alone school districts that are performing well.
- Use the state's longitudinal data system to link the classroom effectiveness ratings of incoming teachers with the programs that trained them, and annually publish the results for each teacher training program, as Louisiana has done successfully.
- Drawing on federal Title I school turnaround funding, create capacity at the state level (either internal or contracted) to turnaround or reconstitute failing schools.

These initiatives will give Connecticut a strong start towards reversing the deterioration in our schools that has occurred over the last two decades. Tom will look to other states such as Massachusetts and Florida, which are doing better than Connecticut at improving their schools, for best practices and other policies that work. Working together with educators, municipalities, and our legislature, Tom will re-establish Connecticut as a leader in education and the state with the best performing schools in the nation.
LINK: http://www.tomfoley2010.com/?p=2217 

GO TOM & MARK!!!

Endorsed by:

Rev. Barb