Joseph P. Mohorovic

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Joseph P. Mohorovic

• International Leaders Summit
• Zagreb, Croatia
• November 6, 2004

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Mohorovicic Background

• Grandfathers Grandfathers brother was Andrija
  Mohorovicic, father of the geologist Dr. Andrija
  Mohorovicic, of Mohorovicic Discontinuity and
  Moho fame.
• Grandfather, Joseph Mohorovicic was Senior
  Counsel to Ban Ivan Subasic of the Croatian
  government in exile. Grandfather was born in
  small villiage of Rukavac, north of Opatija.
  Subasic was my fathers godfather.
• Grandfather Joseph was called by Subasic to
  America to serve as secretary and advisor in
  1941. Subasic was called to London in 1942 and
  my grandfather went with him. King Peters
  government was in London under British
  protection.

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Mohorovicic Background (continued)

• My father, Jesse, born in lifeboat off coast of
  Virginia in 1942. In his early professional
  career, my father, Jesse, dropped the second ic
  from his surname which is why I am Joseph
  Mohorovic (not Mohorovicic).
• 1944 Ban Subasic was asked by Churchill to meet
  with Tito to form the framework for a post war
  government to include Serbian King Peter
  contingent upon free elections.

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Mohorovicic Background (continued)

• This accomplished, Subasic and Mohorovicic
  returned to the U.S. in 1945 in order to attend
  the San Francisco conference establishing the
  United Nations. Both Ban Subasic and Joseph
  Mohorovicic signed the United Nations Charter on
  Jugoslavias behalf.
• With the War over, Ban Subasic returned to
  Jugoslavia to participate in free elections as
  part of a Constitutional Monarchy. My
  grandfather was skeptical of the situation and,
  instead, stayed in America.

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Representative-Elect 1998

• Many parallels between situation in New Mexico in
  1998 and Croatia.
• Congressman Gingrichs conversation with Ronald
  Reagan.
• Our task reverse 65 years of collectivist policy
  in New Mexico.

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Drafting a Plan

• This is not a game for summer soldiers. Thomas
  Paine
• 4 Goals
• Establish our vision
• Rebuild our party in New Mexico
• Arouse business and professionals
• Define our opponents

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Establish a Vision

• Paint a picture of a gloriously different New
  Mexico.
• Behave every day as people who believe this is
  about New Mexicos future and our childrens
  future.
• Believe that this is about the future of freedom.

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Rebuild Our Institutions

• Somehow we successfully avoided majority status
  for over 70 years! Why?
• We had the wrong culture in our party.
• Leadership attacking our Governor
• Siding with opponents in local elections
• Letters in support of opponents leadership
• Draw distinction and continue in an active
  leadership role.

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Arouse and Awaken the Productive

• If you are productive you should keep your mouth
  shut.
• Meanwhile, people who are unproductive
• raise your taxes,
• sue you in court,
• Humiliate you in their classrooms, and
• Criticize you in the editorials you pay for by
  buying the advertisements which pay for their
  salaries!

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Arouse and Awaken the Productive

• What if we actually spent more time talking to
  the people who create jobs?
• Why call the same liberal professors
• Who wrote the bills,
• Who got us in the mess,
• To tell us why the mess they got us in isnt
  really bad?

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Define the Status Quo and Provide an Alternative

• People in my state knew the situation was dismal.
• People in my state knew that collectivist,
  liberal policy had failed them.
• What they did not see was a product line to
  deliver to them a better future.

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Demonstrate a Clear Contrast

• Our Vision
• Replace subsidies and quotas with incentives
• Restore people to citizenship for a better future
• Strengthen work, family, entrepreneurship,
  technology, safety, individual opportunity and
  local control
• We believe in free markets, private property,
  lower taxes and smaller government

• Their Vision
• Big government
• Big bureaucracy
• Big taxes
• Big unions
• Quotas
• Counterculture weak on crime
• Weak on individual rights

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Describe Two Different Worlds

• We believe in less bureaucracy, less spending,
  for a smaller government
• So we can lower taxes for parents
• So they can keep the money they earn to take care
  of their children

• The establishment wants higher taxes for a bigger
  government
• So the bureaucrat can spend on your child what
  you cant afford to spend
• Because you had to pay the taxes in order to take
  care of the bureaucrat
• Who can then spend the money on your child what
  you cant afford to spend!

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To sum it up

• We believe you should earn more,
• And keep more,
• So you can have the freedom to do more!