Jacksonville Mayors race makes national talk Radio via Rick Santorum!!!!

[Lane Watkins]

There is a conservative talk show host named Bill Bennett who hosts a radio program called “Morning In America” from 6AM to 9AM weekdays on AM 600 in Jacksonville.  This is the most informative conservative talk show, period.  Please try to listen someday although you may have to listen via the internet.

Rick Santorum, the former Congressman/aspiring conservative Presidential candidate substitutes for Bill on Fridays.  The Jacksonville Mayors race was Tuesday, May 17.  On Friday, May 20, Rick interviewed the head of the South Carolina Republican party.  They discussed that the Duval GOP and the Mike Hogan campaign ran a relatively low key campaign while Corrine Brown brought at least 200 paid staffers from out of state to Jacksonville to herd voters to the polls to vote for Alvin Brown.  We lost the Mayor’s seat to a progressive liberal as a result of conservatives from Jacksonville staying home. They described the Hogan campaign as “cream puff”.  So, a national talk show host/presidential candidate from PA and a Republican from South Carolina "get it" that progressive liberals are organized and committed to come to our town and take it away from us.  Everyone in Jacksonville knew what was going on – we certainly discussed it among tea party folk - but, at least as far as the Duval GOP and Mike Hogan campaign, I saw zero sense of urgency.  Did it strike you that the Hogan campaign was a much more spirited campaign for the March election?  Rick and the South Carolina party man laid the blame for Hogan's loss at the feet of the Duval GOP and the Hogan campaign.

For more on the Alvin Brown campaign strategy, see Billie's post on the TU vindicating what the tea party claimed.  This progressive liberal strategy of bringing in paid staffers to run local elections is happening all across our country.

On another note, I saw a blog post asserting that since the progressive liberals will be spread out across the country for the 2012 election, their resources in terms of money and manpower may be diluted.  That thinking breeds complacency and is a recipe for disaster.  I respectfully submit that it doesn’t matter how diluted the opposition is as long as they deliver more voters than you.  Let me say this:  They are better funded than you, more organized than you and quite possibly more committed than you.  When Mike Yost ran against Corrine Brown in 2010, Mike worked 24/7 to run a hard fought campaign.  Corrine’s campaign office was closed more than it was open.  She CRUSHED Mike.  Do you understand?  All she had to do was make a few calls and write a few checks.  Her organization was well established.  The time is now for conservative Americans to organize and make a commitment for 2012.