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GOP Knight Aims To Check Democrats’ Bishop – Conservative anger attracts national attention, financial backing to district
Nov 30th
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:12:00
Stephen Flanagan’s strategy worked.
The 55-year-old Suffolk businessman and conservative activist wanted to prove to the world that his congressman, four-term Rep. Tim Bishop, could be defeated, despite scant interest from national Republicans.
So Flanagan and his group, the Conservative Society for Action (CSA), whose 3,000 members meet monthly in a rented American Legion hall in West Islip, hatched a plan to attract national attention to the district and lure credible candidates to the race.
They swarmed Bishop’s first summer town hall meeting in June, mobbing him as he arrived and then chanting epithets inside. Police had to be called to escort the congressman from the event.
Footage of the protest spread like wildfire across the Internet and cable news. The National Republican Congressional Committee circulated the video among its donors. Conservative activists across the country mimicked the strategy, fanning a national phenomenon.
And suddenly Bishop, who won by healthy margins in each of the last four elections, became a target.
“We did target him for removal, and we felt that the first step was to create a vulnerability. That’s when we came up with the town hall protest concept,” Flanagan said. “The hope at that point was that, once it became clear that he was vulnerable in his position, it would attract a wider field of candidates and financial support going forward.”
Now, the unrest Flanagan’s group has stirred on the normally sleepy East End has attracted national attention from Republican and Democratic leaders, who see Bishop’s seat as one of a few dozen that could help shift the balance of power in Washington. The contest has also become a national bellwether for the relevance of the right-wing agitators and the ability of national Republicans to channel widespread frustration into electoral success.
“That put a spotlight on the district that had not been there before,” said David Wasserman, the House editor at the Cook Political Report, which has tagged Bishop’s district as a possible swing seat. “Republicans did some more prying into this district to try and gauge whether it was a sort of one-time-only thing, or whether skepticism toward Democrats is more widespread.”
Republicans in Washington and Suffolk say they found the latter, and as a result Flanagan and his allies have secured all of what they wanted and more: a credible Republican candidate, financial backing from wealthy GOP patrons and, at last, the interest of the national party.
Randy Altschuler, a Wall Street entrepreneur and Republican bundler, has emerged as the early favorite among local activists and GOP operatives in Washington, who believe he can meet the all-important benchmarks that determine a candidate’s credibility: endorsements, infrastructure and cash.
“With Randy, it changes the dynamic completely,” said Assembly Member Phil Boyle, who has managed several Republican congressional campaigns in Suffolk. “This is Tim Bishop’s worst nightmare.”
Altschuler has also demonstrated considerable progress toward a crucial benchmark many of his predecessors have promised to meet but failed: At least $2 million in cash-on-hand, the minimum the NRCC prefers to see before committing to a challenger. Altschuler’s campaign announced earlier this month that he has already collected a quarter of that, much of it from his own pocket.
“There’s been a lot of positive support from the national party,” Altschuler said.
An NRCC official confirmed that Altschuler had met with Republicans in D.C. and that, so far, his campaign had reached or exceeded each of the benchmarks national GOP operatives had laid out for him.
“He is impressing people in the first district and he’s generating significant momentum,” said the official. “He’s put up some impressive numbers and an impressive infrastructure.”
Altschuler’s campaign is being run by Chris Maloney, a veteran of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign and a former aide to the NRCC, who has helped Altschuler build a sizeable ground operation and connections to party officials in Suffolk and D.C.
Altschuler has engendered valuable goodwill among local lawmakers and activists by loaning his 100 or so volunteers out to their campaigns. His team hopes that strategy will help him avoid the problems that have plagued upstate Republican congressional candidates Jim Tedisco and Dede Scozzafava, who have suffered from the perception that they were forced upon their districts by national Republicans.
“My team has gotten involved with a lot of local races,” Altschuler said. “You have to show that you’re invested in the local party.”
But some Republicans remain hesitant to embrace Altschuler because of his Wall Street background. During the presidential campaign, when Altschuler served as a bundler for John McCain, reports emerged that a company he founded, OfficeTiger, had helped outsource American jobs to India. Democrats have already promised to make that a central theme of their attack ads, which has given some local Republicans pause.
“There’s a lot of this coronation going on,” said one Suffolk Republican who has stayed out of the race. “I think he probably has a consensus of support, but there are people who are concerned.”
Those people are instead turning to an alternative candidate, George Demos, a former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer who worked on the investigation of Bernard Madoff. But Demos was late in announcing his candidacy, has raised only a paltry sum and has been outpaced by Altschuler in winning endorsements and assembling a campaign operation.
John LaValle, the Suffolk Republican chairman, said that would make catching up very difficult for Demos.
“Randy Altschuler has clearly established his ability to raise funds, and in addition to that he’s put together a very solid campaign team,” LaValle said. “We’ll see how George proceeds.”
What Demos lacks in money and infrastructure, he hopes to make up in grassroots energy. Demos is a member of Flanagan’s group, the CSA, and has already courted the organization’s members on several occasions for their endorsement.
But so has Altschuler, which Flanagan and his cohorts take as evidence of their growing influence.
“I think they know that we’re responsible for taking the first step,” Flanagan said of the candidates. “Our message is clear: If you don’t represent us, we’re going to come after you.”
Source: The Capitol
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ABOVE: For the first time since 2002, Rep. Tim Bishop has a credible Republican opponent. Photo by Andrew Schwartz
CSA Long Island Answers The Call of Michelle Bachmann
Nov 8th
The Video speaks for itself. Thank’s Art for another great repot!
Acorn File – Print it Out, Share and Learn about the Left’s tactics and use it against them.
Oct 11th
For those of you who would like a clean .pdf file of the Critical ACORN Doc Found on an Asian Website, you can click HERE and it will open up in a new window and you can print it out, read it on your computer, save it as a .pdf file, etc.
Thanks to AcornCracked.com for posting the original file on their site. This is a cleaned up version I created in order to remove the ‘printed from web site’ look, and give it a more polished look. Make sure you print out a bunch and hand them out at your next tea party patriot gathering. The silent movement of the “NEW RIGHT’ is growing, First they ignored us, then they laughed at us, now they have tried to fight us. Get to know their game (Acorn Documents) and how they operate, and we will be empowered to defeat them.
Michael (Administrator)
Hannah Giles in a Bikini and Sex Tape
Sep 26th
Ok, so you have googled and searched high and low. You know there is some old boyfriend who has a sex tape on this 21 year old college student, right. Come on. She’s 21, she’s hot, and has a body Brittany Spears would strangle her 2 bastard sons for. There are no graphic, explicit Hannah Giles bikini pictures on this site, but if you click this link and donate 50 – 60 grand, perhaps Hanna will send you a bikini glamour shot as a thank you.
Rules for Counter-Radicals
Sep 26th

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything. That was Democrat Joe Trippi’s 2004 manifesto. Taking On the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era was the title of another guide, by Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, issued last fall.
Well, the system has been taken on. And it wasn’t televised: It was YouTubed. But it wasn’t Trippi or Markos. It happened on the other side of the World Wide Web street: Andrew Breitbart didn’t write the book, he did the deed.
“You can’t change the world without conflict,” Moulitsas wrote. “Self-appointed and unaccountable gatekeepers have purported to operate in the public interest, but they are grossly out of touch with the public.”
He took his inspiration from Sixties radical Saul Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals, and quoted him thus: “We will start with the system because there is no other place to start from except political lunacy. It is most important for those of us who want revolutionary change to understand that revolution must be preceded by reformation. To assume that a political revolution can survive without the supporting base of a popular reformation is to ask for the impossible in politics.”
“Bypass the Gatekeepers.”
“Don’t Wait for Authorization.”
“Target Your Villain.”
“Adapt and Innovate.”
“Embrace the Attacks.”
“Fight Small, Win Big.”
It all sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Again, these are pieces of advice from Kossak-in-chief Markos. But it could very well tell the story of the launch of Breitbart’s Big Government.
Something happened as folks on the right sat around waiting for Sarah Palin’s next Facebook post, wondering who the next Ronald Reagan would be. Something happened while folks debated death panels, what Rush Limbaugh said at noon that MSNBC or Rahm Emanuel is up in arms about. Something happened while the president of the United States planned his strategy for getting a Washington his party runs to sign up for his health-care revolution.
The stuff of which media revolutions are made happened.
The Left rules, you could still argue. But that’s in spite of being Left. Barack Obama ran for president downplaying his left-wing ideology and record, instead talking vaguely about “hope” and “change” and even invoking Ronald Reagan.
You’ve seen the tea parties. You saw the march. Now you’ve seen inside the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
Andrew Breitbart, born and raised online, has been a longtime collaborator with web wonder Matt Drudge. Always a behind-the-scenes mover, he’s come out of the shadows a bit with his own websites, Breitbart, Big Hollywood, and Big Government — taking the Rules for Radicals and Radical Change and running with them.
For as long as I can remember, the Right — most notably the Capital Research Center — has been writing about ACORN. And, for as long as I can remember, ACORN has gotten government funding anyway. For as long as I can remember, churches naively gave them money anyway. As recently as this summer, we exposed the ties of the Democratic party and its nominee to this community-organizing organization, its radical anti-capitalism and its voter fraud.
But what it really took was a cartoonish pimp-and-prostitute sting operation. A guy and a gal with a hidden camera and a website willing to publish. By now you know the story. When asked how to skirt the law and establish a brothel, representatives of ACORN offered them advice — a gift to the Right that for so long has wanted to take them down. Want to know how to get on welfare? James O’Keefe III, portraying a pimp who sought to traffic in foreign children, got advice, with Hannah Giles, portraying a prostitute, by his side. Want to cheat the tax system? ACORN provided this advice, too. Public housing? ACORN helped! And always make sure to have a tin for hiding the profit, they added.
And then there is the National Endowment for the Arts. One of the very first things I wrote for National Review was an editorial item about the NEA. About some funding outrage. About unnecessary funding of the arts in America in the first place. I was far from alone. Again, Breitbart’s Big Hollywood has exposed the NEA for holding a phone call recruiting artists to serve the president’s political agenda, offering them talking points for doing so. The revelation gradually has led to a reassignment of duties at the NEA and a White House response.
If we were to continue to adapt Moulitsas’s book, “Aim for the Gut, Not for the Brain” might be an appropriate chapter title.
The Left clearly wants to advance radical change. Their success is neither imminent nor inevitable. That has something to do with the fact that folks on the right are so obviously tired of the audacity. Of the presidential slights. Many of these are the same people who would have been — or were — standing athwart history yelling Stop! during the Cold War. They believe it’s about liberty and tyranny, as radio-talk-show host Mark R. Levin puts it in the title of his bestselling book.
In his chronicle of how Howard Dean was changing the world with new technology, Trippi wrote what he called “the story of a person who spends his life reconciling two vastly different worlds — politics and technology — and wakes up one morning to find himself standing at the place where they’re about to converge, to crash together and begin reversing fifty years of political cynicism in one glorious explosion of civic re-engagement.”
That, Mr. Trippi, is where Andrew Breitbart lives. Exposing and getting results, from Congress, from the White House, even, reluctantly, from the media. The left-wing emperor issued many orders, but he has no clothes. If you thought the Right wasn’t competing online, and wasn’t capable of doing some organizing of its own, September 2009 has been an education.
Read More at National Review
They’re More Than Nuts, They’re ACORN…
Sep 23rd
Great Video Essay by Alfonzo Rachel. He breaks down the ACORN bullshit homeboy style.
Boehner: ‘Tea Party’ Protests a Legitimate ‘Political Rebellion’
Sep 19th

House Republican leader John Boehner called the “tea party” protests Saturday a legitimate “political rebellion” that is the result of pushback against Democrat spending — as politicians on both sides continue to clash over what is motivating the growing movement.
Speaking to the Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering of the religious conservatives in Washington, Boehner blasted the Democrats for “bankrupting” the country. He said people are demonstrating and attending town hall meetings because “we’re in the midst of a political rebellion in America.”
Boehner said the crowd at tea party he attended over Labor Day weekend near his home in Ohio drew 18,000 people, with the message to Congress that “enough is enough.” A prominent demonstration that weekend on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., drew tens of thousands in an event that organizers said was in opposition to big government proposals.
The recent protests were just the latest in a series of public displays of voter outrage, dating back at least to April, when simultaneous so-called tea parties were held around the country, primarily in protest of President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill.
Anti-spending sentiment also was heard in the uproar at town hall meetings held by members of Congress in August, when the key issue was the massive overhaul of the health care system proposed by Obama and Democratic leaders.
Since then, the demonstrations have grown to include a broad range of grievances, while drawing accusations that they are based partly in racism and fears that they could incite violence — criticisms that protest leaders deny.
Former President Jimmy Carter, notably, suggested there is a racial element behind opposition to President Obama and his policies.
But Obama said Friday that he believes angry criticisms about his health care agenda are driven by an intense debate over the proper role of government — and not by racism.
“Are there people out there who don’t like me because of race? I’m sure there are,” Obama told CNN. “That’s not the overriding issue here.”
A FOX News poll conducted from Sept. 15 to 16 found that the majority of Americans — 65 percent — think opposition to Obama’s policies is based on honest disagreements while 20 percent said it is motivated by racism.
Black voters, however, were twice as likely to say the opposition is motivated by race while most white voters — 71 percent — say the opposition comes from an honest debate over Obama’s plans to reform the nation’s health care system.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meanwhile, likened the heated opposition to Obama’s health care proposals to a series of anti-gay rallies that preceded the assassination of two San Francisco political leaders in 1978.
Read More: Fox News
What next for the Middle America Rebellion of 2009
Sep 19th

A day before the event, organizers said a mere 20,000 or so folks had registered for Saturday’s amazing 9/12 march on Washington to protest out-of-control government. What they got was hundreds of thousands of intensely patriotic people who came to the nation’s capitol to yell “Stop!”
Whatever the number of attendees, this was possibly the most significant Washington protest since the civil rights movement’s epic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. Indeed, about all that was lacking was a charismatic leader like Dr. Martin Luther King to deliver an “I have a dream” address for the ages.
As the 1963 gathering meant America’s blacks would no longer accept second-class citizenship, Saturday’s march was the leading edge of the fabled Silent Majority that is silent no longer. That ought to give President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reason to sit down and rethink everything they think they know about the American people.
And the same applies, but even more so, for Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Minority Leader John Boehner.
To hasten that much-needed reappraisal by official Washington, here are some clues: Most Americans never were as gullible as you thought, they just didn’t pay you that much attention. They are now, as never before. They no longer have an unbending loyalty to any person or political party in Congress or the White House. And they aren’t going to be silent any longer.
Things are different now. As Shannon Love noted on theChicago Boyzblog:
“Getting hundreds of thousands of kids, the professionally unemployed, and government workers to show up isn’t that hard [especially if someone buys the bus tickets]. Getting two million middle-class, middle-aged people with jobs, careers, children and businesses is way, way more impressive.
“We can safely assume that for every individual who made it to the protest that there are dozens of people whose grown-up obligations prevented them from attending.
“That thought should keep Obama and Pelosi up at night.”
Congratulations to the 9/12 organizers, including Fox News’ Glen Beck, FreedomWorks.org, Tea Party Patriots, Resist.Net, and a huge informal coalition of conservative, libertarian and populist citizen groups across the country.
Now, the crucial question is what comes next for Middle America Rebellion of 2009. Two weeks ago in this space, I suggested the primary focus should be on replacing Congress in 2010 by electing candidates from either or any party who support a basic platform that earns them a Tea Party endorsement, or seal of approval.
While I didn’t then and don’t now claim to have a magic formula for making that happen, I suggested that two essential elements are a constitutional amendment for term limits and a binding pledge to balance the federal budget without tax increases.
Recalls are associated with initiatives and referendums, two reforms associated with the Progressives of the early 20thcentury. More recently, there is a renewed interest on the Right in these processes, as seen in theBallotpedia.orgweb site, and the work of Paul Jacobs and theCitizens in Charge Foundation.
The Founders would reject a recall because their intent was to blunt and deflect transient majorities from being too easily able to impose their will on a vulnerable minority, With representatives facing voters every two years, a recall on them would probably be extraneous.
But the Founders never envisioned a deeply entrenched political class using its accumulated powers of incumbency to hamstring a vulnerable majority. Now, as the Middle America Rebellion of 2009 grows more self-aware and focused via the Internet, a way to recall a senator or a president might be worth a look.
Just having such a national discussion will have a salutary effect.
Mark Tapscott is editorial page editor of The Washington Examiner and proprietor of Tapscott’s Copy Desk blog on washingtonexaminer.com.
