Dear Members: You Should Know About This

[FCTP]

As many of you know, the First Coast Tea Party belongs to a Florida Statewide Tea Party Leaders Google Group.  We have been together for nearly two years now.  The group is a secured, confidential group and we discuss issues, thoughts and frustrations among tea party friends.  We do this to coordinate efforts in the state of Florida and bounce off ideas.

 

Today I was called by the press about an email that was written by me to this private email group.  The email was a part of a large discussion about the Tea Party and the 2012 election and focused on what happened here locally and how that could be applied to our future work.  My email called out the GOP Lawyers who advised the Mike Hogan campaign to let it go and concede.  To put it lightly, I felt they should have advised them to continue the battle and push hard to make sure … as Alvin Brown said “Count Every Vote.”   I mentioned a 2 hour phone conversation I had with Jerry Holland the day after the concession where I was asking questions to understand what happened and why the concession was so quick.  Jerry Holland was forthright and answered my questions with sincerity and professionalism.  My email indicated how upset I was that the GOP Lawyers did not encourage a fight because I knew the “political machine” would have fought hard and would have kept this process going a lot longer. 

 

To get to the point, either the “political machine” or a mole in our group (doubtful) stole that private email string and sent it to the media.

 

To say the tea party leaders were shocked and disappointed is an understatement.  To say my trust level has been shattered is another understatement.

 

Abel Harding called me to get a statement about the email.  It is circulating all over the media and of course they are running with it.  This is juicy news.

 

I spoke to Abel this evening and told him that was a private email that was stolen and the tea party leaders in Florida were very upset about that.  I stand behind the message of the email and believe the Political Machine did beat us and the GOP lawyers should have fought harder for a win.  We found out the GOP does not understand who Alinsky is and Alinsky IS the Political Machine.  No one organization or person is to blame for the loss of this race and ALL of us are to blame for the loss of this race.

 

The media loves this story and the GOP is not feeling good right now nor are we.  That message was between friends as we tried to understand who the GOP is and how to fight the Political Machine so we can win in 2012. 

 

These are all hard lessons for us.  All of us who worked together to win the mayoral race were stunned with the outcome.  The Political Machine beat us and that is the fact. 

 

What we must do is figure out how to beat the Political Machine in 2012 – by either coming together with a plan; setting up our own political party; OR hunkering down and wishing it would all go away.  At this point, I think we would all agree we must come together to figure thiout.  The GOP is weak about the Political Machine and so are we.  The Machine has massive amounts of funding and a grassroots system that surpasses all of us.  Without funding, a system and boots on the ground, we are going to be fighting an uphill battle that we will not win. 

 

The country loses, the GOP loses, the tea party loses and the people lose.

The end of this story is this:

• We are getting under someone’s skin so they want to infiltrate our emails and our websites.
• The GOP and Tea Party must figure out how they work together – if they do.
• The Political Machine is alive and well in Florida and will not be going away until December 2012. 

Abel Harding will have his story about this sad state of affairs tomorrow.  There is also another story brewing that the local GOP leader and the Tea Party are in a pointing fingers match with each other and the tea party is being blamed for Mike Hogan’s loss.  That is an outright lie and no one in the GOP leadership or the Tea Party has said anything of the sort.   We are not blaming each other nor are we blaming the Hogan camp.  The blame lies within everyone who had anything to do with this PLUS the 300,000 peope who stayed home and did not vote.

 

We have gained one more notch in our political belt!  We are new to this political game and finding how dark and difficult it is.  These notches are hard to take but they are worth it all.

 

On another note: 

• Please be aware that the Political Machine is trolling our website trying to have conversations with bloggers.  We are watching these conversations closely and will remove these people from our website when we see hanky-panky.
• The day after the election a member received a phone call from someone asking about the bumper sticker she has “Take Back America.”  She told them where to get it (our office) and they asked her if she was a tea party member.  She said yes.  A few minutes later the same person called backed believing he was calling someone else.  She confronted him and he stammered with her until he hung up.  It appears the Political Machine is working from a list and trying to identify tea party members.  If you get a call, beware of that tactic.  As for me, I’m proud to be a Tea Party Member and will gladly say “Yes” when they call.

No one said this would be easy and no one said the press would like us.  No one said our friends would not rat us out.  No one said we would win every race.  But someone did say, “Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”  That man was Benjamin Franklin and he understood that fighting for liberty would require a lot from each of us.  There are days I wonder if I have it in me to keep it up.  Then I cry my tears, wipe them away and say “Hell No – I’m not going away.  I owe it to my grandchildren and to those who fought and gave their lives for my freedom."

 

I am willing to risk everything I have and will continue to do that no matter what the press writes or what the infiltrators do to me. The months ahead will require strong, principled people to stand up to the Political Machine, stare it down and say:  “Machines don’t win, people do!”

 

Are you game for this?  Will you go with us?  Will we let the press or the Political Machine marginalize us or the GOP so Obama and his political class can win in 2012? 

 

I planned to take the last couple of days off and that has been impossible.  I will be taking next week off to recharge the batteries and prepare for the next battle.  I may write a blog or two while I am away but I do not plan to entertain the media or anyone else about the mayor’s race.  It is finished and there is no need to cry over spilled milk.  Instead, it is time to clean it up and figure out a way to eliminate the spills in the future!

 

And a final note:  “Be careful what you put in a private email.  It may end up as a headline one day.”

[J.R.]

Yes, Jeff, I can well imagine such an uproar if that occurred in Mandarin.  But, I received information from another source that those vote totals were made available before all the polls closed and that two Northside precincts were much later than the others in turning in their totals. I wrote about that earlier on this website. I firmly believe there should be an audit of all the registrations for the past year and an audit of the vote, in large part due to the aggressive registrations and questionable and varied get out the vote efforts during the election by an international labor union, the SEIU, Organizing for America (largely the former ACORN), as well as huge out-of-state contributions to Alvin Brown, including "In Kind" donations that I did not find among his disclosed donations that were required to be filed.

And, we all know the Times Union was in cahoots with the Alvin Brown campaign, for they politically endorsed him, refused to ask our question of him, and refused to publish anything the Tea Party asked them to publish in an attempt to learn specific details about Alvin Brown's education, prior work history, qualifications for the job of Mayor, and his fitness to serve the citizens of Duval County. They did a deliberate blackout of anything of benefit to conservatives and to Mike Hogan prior to the election and they did not give Mike Hogan equal treatment with that they gave Brown. There's also a question of their denial of our free speech rights to have our information published, as requested,  that can in no way be deemed equal access.

You can call all of this something other than "in cahoots with," but a rose by any other name is still a rose. That applies to carpetbaggers and cheaters, too.

[Jeff Stanch]

JR, just so we're clear.  Those percentages were made public thursday AFTER the election.  I don't accuse the TU of being in cahoots with the Brown campaign just ignoring what I feel is a huge story.  17 precincts voted OVER 98% for Brown some OVER 99%.  That's either fraud or we have a racist monolith in our inner city.  Either way it's a huge story.  Can you imagine the uproar if a few precincts in Mandarin voted 99% Hogan?

[J.R.]

So..., the Florida Times Union was helping inform Democrats target numbers of cast ballot totals so they would know how many new votes they had to find for Alvin Brown? How was the Times Union getting those early precinct percentages to publish online? Why were those percentages even being made available to anyone, including those who hadn't voted yet, before all the polls were closed? Did the Supervisor of Elections allow them to be posted online before all the polls were closed?  If so, WHY?? These questions must be answered.

I believe that both providing and publishing that information before the polls closed is cheating to throw an election and, if it isn't a violation of election laws, it should be. As far as I'm concerned it's election fraud and these election results need to be thrown out and another run-off election held.

Even if it isn't illegal, it is highly unethical and morally reprehensible. Those responsible for it need to be held accountable. The entire voting public in Duval County have a right to answers on this outrageous undermining and compromising of the elections process that, in the end, produced an unfair, and possibly fraudulent, election.

[Jeff Stanch]

JL Gawlik,  the Florida Times union published precinct by precinct percentages last Thursday.  I made calls, sent in rants and oped letters to no avail, wanting to be enlightened on how this could happen.  Cancelled my subscription Saturday, after 31 years.

[Kurt D Wullenweber]

You're right JR. This is exactly how the precinct chief in WIsconsin defeated the vote fraud. She held back the count of a large majority conservative precinct until the frauders played their hand. IT's why the loser was/is suing for a recount, even though the num,bers are outside recount limits. Without the "recount" they can't "find" more votes, the same way Al Franken was "installed" in Minnesota and the Governor of Washington was intalled there.

[J.R.]

If those percentages are correct, that is a statistical impossibility. Unless the Black Panthers were on duty outside the polls telling white voters that if they weren't voting for Alvin Brown, they could just go on home. That was their modus operandi in 2008.

What I believe they did was hold back submitting their vote totals for those precincts until after they got a target number they had to beat and, well, you know the rest...

[JL Gawlik]

Jeff where did you get those figures?

[Jeff Stanch]

Jerry Holland is a joke, I'm sorry.  17 precincts voting OVER 98% brown, some OVER 99%.  There are thousands of voters in each precinct.  This is a statistical impossibility.  That means voter fraud.   Where is he on this?

   RINO's get no respect from democrats Jerry, they'll go after your head no matter what you do for them.  Your just a useful idiot.

[J.R.]

Below is a link to my new blog I just posted, titled:

"SAUL ALINSKY WOULD BE AS PROUD OF BARACK OBAMA'S MAJOR MIDDLE EAST SPEECH AS MICHELLE OBAMA IS..."

It demonstrates the sophisticated degree of community organizing to which voters in both Jacksonville (Duval County) and Tampa (Hillsborough County) were up against in the very recent county elections. It also shows what we'll be up against, very likely with much greater force, from now until the 2012 national election.

It also shows, in no uncertain terms, that Barack Obama is a solidly confirmed Alinsky-style socialist committed to installing a socialist government in this country. 

The Tea Party has to get highly organized and hit the ground running...NOW! Otherwise, we will see a repeat performance in what will be the most important election of our lifetimes.

http://www.fctpcommunity.org/profiles/blogs/saul-alinsky-would-be-a...

[Jason Fischer]

Well said Billie!