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A rally to re-assert states' rights and other freedoms will be held in Biloxi MS during the National Governors' Conference. Any Freepers that can, please join us and bring your friends. A Tea Party all day Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th. Food (Shed's BBQ), live music, vendors and speakers both days. The plans are still being finalized. Sponsored by the South Mississippi 9/12 Groups. Location: Biloxi Town Green 710 beach blvd Biloxi, MS

The biggest star at the governor's conference at Independence Hall wasn't the former movie star from California or the President-elect, it was the moose hunting woman with the America's Next Top Model looks and the brains to balance a state budget. http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=20212105&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8

 XXV BORDER GOVERNORS CONFERENCESEPTEMBER 27 & 28, 2007PUERTO PEÑASCO, SONORA JOINT DECLARATIONPREAMBLEThe Governors of the states of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas, of the United States of America, and the states of Baja California, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Sonora and Tamaulipas, of the United Mexican States, meeting in the City of Puerto Peñasco, Sonora on the 27th and 28th of September, 2007, having analyzed, within the framework of the XXV U.S.–Mexico Border Governors Conference, issues relating to Water, Agriculture and Livestock, Science and Technology, Logistics and International Crossings, Economic Development, Education, Energy, the Environment, Health, Border Safety, Tourism and...

AUSTIN — Accusing Congress of abdicating its responsibility to control immigration and secure the U.S.-Mexico border, the governors of four border states signed a letter on Friday urging federal lawmakers to pass comprehensive immigration reform before the end of the year. Democrats Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Republicans Rick Perry of Texas and Arnold Schwarzenegger of California signed the letter at the close of the two-day Border Governors Conference. They also joined the governors of six Mexican states in signing a joint declaration on issues ranging from tourism and trade to education and border...

U.S.-Mexico leaders vow to expand trade while securing the border In two languages, leaders of U.S. and Mexico border states embraced one vision Thursday, pledging at the 24th Border Governors Conference at the Texas Capitol to develop mutually beneficial policies to enhance border security and economic development. "We are bound together not only by a common border but a common future," Texas Gov. Rick Perry said at the conference's opening ceremonies in the Senate chamber. Perry, flanked by the leaders of eight other U.S.-Mexico border states, said the governors face new challenges in a new era. "We can't return to...

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his counterparts from Texas, Arizona and New Mexico made stopping illegal immigration a central theme at their annual meeting Thursday with governors from Mexico's border states. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat, introduced a resolution calling for all 10 U.S. and Mexican border governors to fight criminality along the border, including drug smuggling and illegal immigration, instead of waiting for their federal governments to do the job. At the same time, the resolution called for the governors to stand against the prolonged presence of the U.S. National Guard along the...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke yesterday at the annual conference of the Western Governors Association in Sedona, Arizona, where he pushed three resolutions on alternative energy and global warming. “We should fundamentally change our approach to energy,” he declared. “We've all seen the pictures of melting glaciers. We know the dangers of climate change. How the oceans are getting warmer, how they're rising. How agriculture can be threatened.” "We are long past the time when we can just talk about this problem," said the former action superstar, who is being challenged for re-election by Democrat Phil Angelides. "We must take action."...

TORREON, Mexico — On his first visit to this nation since taking office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger received a warm reception Thursday from fellow governors at a border conference... SNIP "It's a good sign that the governor came," said Jose Natividad Gonzalez Paras, governor of Nuevo Leon state, after the event. "It demonstrates that he wants to construct with the governors of the border and the Mexican people a strong relationship." SNIP "He's afraid. He knows the people of Mexico don't like him," said Sandra Mejia Soto, a Mexican representative for the Southwest Network, a group of environmental and immigrant rights...