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Welcome!
This is the homepage of the Harrison County Democratic Executive
Committee (HCDEC) of Mississippi. Our next meeting will be at 9:00 AM
on Saturday, June 5,
2010 at 425 Division St. Biloxi MS 39530.
Map:
http://tinyurl.com/lr6xk5
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Here are letters from local Democrats
concerning healthcare reform. We all have stories to tell about how the
current system let you or someone you know down. America can do better.
Together, in honest discussion, we can fix our bloated health care system.
Send us your story for inclusion!
Read the letters for healthcare reform
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Obama’s First Year Highlights
• Stopped the Bush
Depression by passing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that put
the economy on the path to recovery.
• Turned attention from Bush’s war of choice in Iraq towards the war of
necessity against the terrorist that attacked us in Afghanistan.
• Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
• Expanded the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
• Repealed the Bush ban on embryonic stem cell research.
• Ordered the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp so the
terrorist can no longer use it as a recruiting tool.
• Nominated Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic, to the Supreme Court.
• Placed new regulations on power plants, factories and oil refineries in
an attempt to limit greenhouse gas emissions and to curb global warming.
• Signed the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which expanded the federal
hate-crime law to include sexual orientation, gender identity, or
disability.
• Signed into law the Car Allowance Rebate System, known colloquially as
"Cash for Clunkers" to help the troubled auto industry.
• Became the first sitting U.S. President to preside over a meeting of the
United Nations Security Council.
• Ordered the U.S. military to conduct a rescue mission to free Captian
Richard Phillips who was held hostage by the pirates for five days.
• Began negotiations with Russia with the aim of reducing nuclear
inventories to 1,000 warheads on each side.
• Won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to
strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
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Barack Obama’s One Year Anniversary Ball was held on
January 23rd 2010 at Treasure Bay
Casino / Resort.
The celebration had a live
DJ, dancing, food and drinks with Master of Ceremony: Rip Daniels. A
special presentation was made in front of the sell-out crowd to Clare
Rhodeman for 38 years of service to the Democratic Party.
Coast Democrats celebrated
President Barack Obama's first year of history in style and danced the
night away on top of the town in Treasure Bay's 9th floor ballroom.
Click here for pictures from the Ball
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Mississippi corporate welfare costs
millions and with no taxpayer safeguards the true cost of this welfare
remains hidden while the benefits are exaggerated.
Harrison County assembled a subsidy package
put at $2.3 million for a Wal-Mart Supercenter in D'Iberville that opened
in 1999. $363.5 million subsidy package for the Canton Nissan plant, $330
million for Toyota in Blue Springs. $71 million for the failed Mississippi
Beef Processors plant in Oakland, MS.
Oreck Manufacturing left south Mississippi
as the plant’s 10-year property tax exemption ran out. State and local
subsides totaled more than $20.3 million for the Oreck plant. Even
Mississippi jails are being operated by private companies under tax-exempt
status.
For all this free money to corporations
over the last 20 years MS
is still 49th in economic development despite spending far more per capita
on economic subsidies than other states. We're not getting the results we
should for tax dollars spent. Below is the full report
prepared for the American Federation of Teachers on this tragic waste of
resources.
AFT report on Economic Development Subsidies in
Mississippi
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by the Harrison County Democratic Executive Committee.
The HCDEC includes the cities of Biloxi, D'Iberville, Gulfport, Long Beach and
Pass Christian. Send email to
info@hcdec.net
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Renick Taylor Last modified:
March 09, 2010
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