Representative Todd Tiahrt, 4th Congressional District of Kansas, has recently received the endorsement of “The Architect” Karl Rove, and the Tea Party Express. This past week, he has received the endorsement of former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin!
Todd has been defending Kansas more than ever. Instead of shooting a campaign video, he was on the House floor this past spring debating the irrational and unconstitutional health care legislation being bullied through both chambers. He fought the Obama administration when terrorists were attempted to be transferred to the military disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth (which is a 20 mile drive from my residence).
He publicly opposed the nomination of then-Governor Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Mrs. Sebelius has driven the State of Kansas down the gutter in more way than one. She signed a bill in 2003 allowing illegal aliens to pay in-state college tuition in direct violation of Title 8 of the United States Code.
He was the senatorial candidate present at the Kansas City Tea Party, sponsored by PoliticalChips.org. I admit I was shy when I saw him being interviewed by Darla Jaye, of NewsRadio 980 KMBZ, at the Tea Party. He even was talking with people in the concourse at Community America Ballpark.
When I called his office on the day of the infamous health care vote, his staff was still there answering the lines. They still allowed me to voice my concerns, even though I was not his constituent (I’m in the Kansas 3rd).
If you reside in Kansas, I ask that you vote for a true patriot, like Todd Tiahrt for United States Senate on 3 August 2010. If you are not in Kansas, I still urge you to vote for true Conservatives in your state. Because, we will light up the Second of November like the Fourth of July!
In an Eastern Conference Finals which has rapidly turned into a mismatch, the Boston Celtics drilled the visiting Orlando Magic in Game 3 of their best-of-seven tilt:
Since 20 January 2009, our beloved President has been trying to shove down our throats a very strange and detrimental idea of economics.
It can be said that it started as early as September 2008 with President Bush still in office. I’ve been against the idea of bailing out banks and Wall Street with our hard-earned money from the get-go. TARP was a very bad idea. We are not obligated in any way to bail out those entities who made inappropriate decisions in trying to make a buck. Under threat from the federal government, they also inappropriately put people into properties they had absolutely no business in taking on or couldn’t afford. Now, those financial institutions are going belly up because of their own stupidity, not mine.
The current housing bubble burst can be traced as far back as 1999 when President Bill Clinton signed a fair housing act into law. That law should never have seen the light of day. I’m so sick of these mortgage advertisements on the radio. One particular local advertisement features a man with a loud southern accent (some may say he’s a squeaky voice).
Now in 2010, Obama and his cohorts are wanting to pass another stimulus! What in the world was that $800+ billion atrocity he was bawling about in 2009 for? Where are those jobs this administration “saved” or “created?” There are none!
One example of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is the widening project of U.S. Highway 69 just north and south of Interstate 435 in Overland Park. Yes, that section of highway was in disarray for years, but it has not affected the economy of the Kansas City metropolitan area one bit!
Another example affects me personally. Until recently, one of my relatives worked for a Kansas government department. Stimulus funds were used to help people with assistance in certain situations. It was said that one attorney hired/contracted by the State of Kansas fouled up on a contract considering how to appropriately fund assistance programs for those aforementioned people. This attorney foul-up made the state of Kansas liable for those hundred of thousands of dollars from ARRA.
To help pay that back, this department for whatever reason decided to freeze wages and salaries for its employees for three years. In addition to that, this department was asking for voluntary pay cuts.
Last month, she attended a seminar in the Kansas City area on Martin Luther King, Jr. The presenter asked the audience if they were doing work for the devil or felt they were doing stuff for the devil. She was told by her friend that it was rumored that the Pope refuses to go through Topeka’s airspace because its ZIP codes start with 666 (e.g. 66611 for a section of northeastern Topeka).
That was it for my relative. She quickly cleaned out her desk and quit. She does not regret that decision. As I speak, she may already have a better job locally in Kansas City, Kansas instead of far in Topeka.
So, this so-called stimulus has cost jobs. Not created or saved. Those “created” or “saved” numbers do not add up to a hill of beans. Because of all this waste, this administration is reducing the U.S. Dollar to no more than Monopoly play money!
For me, November 2010 is fast approaching and I cannot wait for 2012, because we need to clean house promptly! Those who are running better wise up because we Americans have had it with the reckless government spending, the shredding of our livelihoods, and the shredding of our Constitution!
Note: We will make a very detailed post with background, links and citations, so please bookmark this article and check back soon.
In the meantime, here are our video responses to Lisa Vorderbrueggen’s Sunday, December 20, 2009 article. Her front-page piece named Conservative New Media and CNM founder John D. Villarreal:
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On Sunday, Dec 20, 2009, the Contra Costa Times (CCT) print edition ran a lengthy front-page-of-the-second-section story which we feel unfairly smeared Conservative New Media (CNM) and its founder, John D. Villarreal. That story was written by CCT political editor Lisa Vorderbrueggen.
CNM had anticipated how Ms Vorderbrueggen would portray us in her piece. We actually had scooped the CCT editor on what we figured was to be her originally-planned story with a series of videos we posted on Tuesday, December 15, 2009.
The video series discussed Robert Beadles‘ affinity for controversial talk radio host Alex Jones. Mr. Beadles, a Republican, is running as a candidate for the United States House of Representatives. He is one of several potential challengers to Democrat Congressman Jerry McNerney in the pending 2010 election for the 11th district of California.
That 5-part video series can be viewed here. If you are short on time, we recommend parts 4 & 5 for a synopsis of the series:
As we detail in this series of videos, we believe that our advanced derailing of the preferred narrative for her Dec 20 story irked Ms. Vorderbrueggen. Her apparent displeasure, we feel, was borne out in what she ended up writing about CNM in her piece.
Our new, 11-part video series critically examines Ms. Vorderbrueggen present article. It also discusses Ms. Vorderbrueggen’s background as a reporter, as well as some controversies and criticisms which have dogged her over the course of her political reporting career.
The following are links which we either allude to in the new video series or else ones which will provide further information on Ms. Vorderbrueggen and additional background on the present situation between her and CNM.
* The title for the print version of Lisa Vorderbrueggen’s Dec. 20, 2009 page A-19 (front page of the ‘East Bay & Bay Area’ section of the Contra Costa Times) article was “Anonymous Blog Sniper Comes Clean.” This is the article in which Ms. Vorderbrueggen mentions CNM and John D. Villarreal.
The online version of Ms. Vorderbrueggen’s piece is now available. The title has been changed to “Blog sniper turns out to be CD11 campaign consultant.” It can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/4zkowl
* Purportedly objective CCT political editor and reporter Lisa Vorderbrueggen is a “fan” of candidate Robert Beadles on Beadles’ Facebook page: http://bit.ly/69l9y9
* Lisa Vorderbrueggen called out for allegedly being biased towards Democrats, and specifically towards certain Democrats over others in the recent California CD-10 race to replace Congresswoman Ellen Taucher:
* Lisa Vorderbrueggen’s colleague was taken to task by, of all sources, MSNBC for giving money to the Democratic National Committee. MSNBC didn’t see anything wrong with the donation and, according to the quote, apparently there is no policy against such partisan donation-giving at Vorderbrueggen’s employer, the Contra Costa Times:
* It appears that even the CC Times’ readers perceive the publication as biased. On the paper’s own site, this comment thread of Times perusers upbraids the periodical for its stilted coverage:
In fact, at least one reader felt so strongly about what he or she believes are the Times’ partisan leanings that there is now an entire blog devoted to monitoring and answering the supposed liberal bias found in the Contra Costa Times. Of course, this is a group of anonymous blogger(s) that Lisa Vorderbrueggen can’t assail by name and who are trying to act as watchdog(s)/whistle-blower(s). This may account for some of her apparent dislike of anonymous bloggers:
* “Lisa Vorderbrueggen to address Coco Taxpayers luncheon, Nov 30″ (2007) http://bit.ly/4voE9A
Was Ms. Vorderbrueggen paid to address the Contra Costa County Taxpayers Association? If so, by whom? Was the event partisan? If Ms. Vorderbrueggen was paid for her appearance, how might this have affected her remarks?
* Why did none of the following, or similar, information appear in Vorderbrueggen’s article about Conservative New Media? These pieces show that the practice criticized by Lisa Vorderbrueggen — being surreptitiously paid or volunteering to provide a particular point of view on the internet, anonymously or otherwise — is widespread on the political left and, indeed, on the largest blog (Daily Kos, a far-left site) in the political space. In fact, Lisa never mentions anyone on the left engaging this practice, which gives the wholly false impression that this phenomenon is confined to the right. Ha ha, the left invented it! Truth be told, the left practically owns the internet and new media, which is why we founded CNM.
“Blogging for Dollars” — Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga paid by Howard Dean campaign in order to induce Zuniga to write and say favorable things about Howard Dean
Full disclosure, I am a paid staff member of the Goehring for Congress campaign. This article is solely meant to reflect my personal views as a political observer. I apologize for any misunderstanding arising from the lack of a disclosure on initial publication. David Creager (dcreager123@yahoo.com).
Anyone who paid attention to high school level American History learned about carpetbaggers, northerners who went to the south to run for office after the civil war. It’s an old tactic for cheap political victory and personal gain, but does it still mean that? In my home congressional district there are two Republicans carpetbagging in order to run against a vulnerable incumbent. Thus the question arises, are they running because they are a good candidate, because they represent their potential constituents, or are they running for personal enrichment and a political job?
These two candidates, Larry Pegram and Tony Amador are both from outside of the 11th district as recently as within the last month or two. Furthermore, they are way out. The district is comprised of the east bay area and the San Joaquin valley, yet Larry Pegram lives in San Jose, and Tony Amador recently moved from Sacramento. Neither of which have any tie in any sense to the 11th Congressional district. They don’t like to talk about this fact, yet the fact remains they don’t even know our district. Pegram was even quoted recently as claiming McNerney rode the Obama wave into office, even though he was elected two years before Obama even ran for president. Obviously he is out of touch with even the most basic history of the district. None of the candidates have a background in transportation, a key issue in the east bay, and only one Republican, Brad Goehring, has a history in Ag and Water issues, the key issues in the valley. Just recently in that much talked about special election in NY-23 where the conservative party candidate took on a Democrat head to head after Scazzofava the liberal Republican dropped out the conservative lost. Not because he didn’t represent the district, the district is a strongly conservative district, but because Congressional elections are local elections, and the Conservative candidate was not a resident of the district.
So what causes a candidate like Larry Pegram or Tony Amador to run for a district in which they have no history, no name ID, no knowledge of key local issues, and no ability to raise money?
Here’s what I want to know, and I would love your feedback on this issue, does it bother you to see candidates relocate simply for a job? Should constituents demand their candidates for office be local to the position they are running for? And, should state law be amended to bar candidates from running who do not have an established residence in a district, at least at the time they file for office, and possibly for 3-6 months in advance?
Full disclosure, I am a paid staff member of the Goehring for Congress campaign. This article is solely meant to reflect my personal views as a political observer. I apologize for any misunderstanding arising from the lack of a disclosure on initial publication. David Creager (dcreager123@yahoo.com).
Historically reasonable Democrats and Republicans have pretty much agreed on one thing, a strong national defense and a well funded military is necessary to the freedoms we hold dear in America. Yet, one congressional candidate, a republican no less, from my home district, CD-11 in California, apparently disagrees. The candidate’s name is Robert Beadles, and he calls himself a conservative, yet I’m not sure which side he really is on.
Two things clued me in. First was a radio interview that Beadles bragged about through his campaign. He was on with a host named Alex Jones. This is a guy who was the executive producer of the film “Loose Change” a “documentary” about how the 9/11 massacre by Muslim terrorists was really an inside job perpetrated by war mongering Republicans, one-world-government Democrats, and Zionist Jews with a thirst for innocent Muslim blood. Yet when Beadles began his interview he gushed all over Jones and credited Jones with shaping his politics. It was a foolish interview at best, and at worst a declaration of shared beliefs. This is just the kind of fringe radical we don’t need running for office on the Republican ticket, let the Peace and Freedom party take it on.
The second clue was a front and center poll on his website here which asks the question, how much does it cost to send a soldier to Afghanistan. His answer, 1 million dollars. A shocking example of how ineffective government is completing any job? Yes. An appropriate focus for this election cycle? Absolutely not. It tells you something about a candidate when in the era of big government socialism, the takeover of the healthcare industry, cap and trade, unions running roughshod over our constitution, free speech and fox news being attacked boldly by the least honorable white house in recent history, and a plummeting dollar value a candidate is really worried about how much it costs to complete a military mission. This man is not a conservative, he’s hardly a Republican in my personal opinion.
At the same time we work to eliminate the left wing republican checkered pants club from our party in exchange for patriotic conservative leaders, we must also eliminate the crazy radicals who the national media loves to latch on to in order to paint us all as out of touch and radical. We lost the white house, we lost the senate, and we lost the house, not only because our party lost touch with its conservative roots but also because leaders arise within the party that were not conservatives. The national media then paints these non conservatives as conservatives because they are Republicans in name. Our brand is then damaged, how much worse if we let these fringe types take advantage of the bullhorn that is the Republican party.
This morning, the Representative of the 3rd District of Kansas, Dennis Moore, announced that he will not seek re-election in 2010.
This self-proclaimed Blue Dog Democrat has voted for TARP both times, the various bank bailouts, the “stimulus,” as well as the health care “reform” bill. He would not answer his own constituents phone calls (everything went to voice mail), canceled all town hall meetings, or take an excessive amount of time writing back. In my case, I wrote him late July/early August regarding health care legislation. I didn’t get a response until the middle of October, whereas both Senators responded within a few weeks.
The Tea Party movement in our district reached a fever pitch this summer. Among of the gatherings I attended was the one at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas on 15 April 2009. The thousands that showed up demonstrated their distrust of the reckless spending taking place in DC.
Our protests have finally reached a breaking point. The last straw was Mr Moore’s vote for the health care bill. When I attempted to call his Washington phone number, his box was full. So, we have forced his hand with his decision to not run for re-election.
Among the people now running for his seat is Nick Jordan of Shawnee, Kansas. He ran last year, but unfortunately lost by a considerable vote. He actually called me personally during his 2008 campaign (and not one of those infamous robo-calls). Having a Congressional candidate making calls himself speaks volumes.
Mr. Jordan is truly conservative in more ways than one. He is not one of those “RINO’s.” He stands for fiscal responsibility. He is for defending our borders. He believes in allowing the free market drive down health care costs; the private sector is more capable of handling itself more than the government.
I would definitely contribute to his 2010 campaign. He will have my vote come 2 November 2010. It is time for the 3rd District of Kansas to be properly represented once again, and I believe Nick Jordan to be that person.
Barack Obama bows again. Last week Obama met with the Emperor of Japan as part of an Asian tour that most recently has brought him to China.
You may remember from a few months back the bow to Saudia Arabia’s King Abdullah that left wingers and the white house spun as an attempt by the taller Obama to reach an eye to eye level with Abdullah. Since the white house vehemently denied Obama was bowing they obvously realize how ridiculous it would be for our president to bow to any world leader. How then do they explain this?
