UPDATE: Now CCCC handing out bottled water wrapped in their lists. A CLEAR ethics violation (but no surprise, since they don’t even have a basic disclaimer on their list). What’s next; stapling a $5 bill to each list?
At least that’s what the initials of the the shadow Collin County Conservative Coalition must really stand for. This group, which clearly is the quickly renamed CLEG crew we described below, has flyers at the polls, distributed by ‘volunteers’ who have so far admitted:
- They’ve never met any of the candidates
- Many are from Dallas County
- They were hired to do this work off Craig’s list! (A favorite tactic of the ultra-left MoveOn. org when they need to bulk up crowds. Hope the establishment types paying for this are matching the up to $16/hr George Soros’s group used to advertise.)
- At least one has admitted to ‘living on the street’; another one has a possible criminal background.
This group, which was invisible before the runoffs and did NO vetting of candidates, is merely trying to pull the wool over the voter’s eyes. It’s sole purpose to try to bring legitimacy to several local candidates who failed to pass muster with authentic, established conservative groups. As you go to the polls be sure to get one of their lists and go over it carefully, realizing every LOCAL candidate on the CCCC list has demonstrated they have nothing but disdain for the intelligence of voters. Do NOT let them get away with this contemptuous deed!
UPDATE: The CCCC is a PAC, apparently created by Steve Tomson, a John Muns supporter in the last election cycle. A one-person PAC hiring people off the street as ‘volunteers’; quite the spontaneous, grassroots-type group, don’t you think?
I am appalled by the arrogance and attitude of this “tea party” and “conservative” group. Who do you think you are? I have worked and volunteered with the Republican party (locally, state and nationally) for 30 years. Never have I seen more divisive and mean spirited tactics in my life! Mr. Openshaw- you talk of the tactics of this new conservative group, I remember not too long ago, YOU passing out information on candidates calling them “sleaze” and you were the”sleaze busters”. Really??? I know most of the Republican candidates, past and present, I wouldn’t consider any of them sleaze. I may not agree with everything a candidate says, but to call them sleaze is just unethical. Now on the subject of this new coalition…I am not sure who is in this group, just like I do not know who is your organization… like I said I have volunteered directly with the Republican party, so all the names you throw around do not really mean that much to me. Last I checked I still live in America and citizens still have the right to form a group and have opinions. YOU do not have a monopoly on the conservative movement! YOU are not the “authority on conservatism”! Why us your vetting more credible than the next guy? I am tired of you and others like you try to destroy reputations just because you disagree with them. Just like your comment about ” the establishment”. So, if you have volunteered and given back to this community, that means you should have no rights or opinions. Doesn’t that sound like Obama? If you work hard for your community and even give back monetarily, you are ridiculed? That is not a positive thing? I agree with of few of your ballot choices, but I don’t agree with your choice of Gail Spurlock for State Board of Education. I DON’T believe that “pilgrims were communist” and that Special Needs students should be pulled out of main stream classes. Does that automatically make me a liberal?? It seems that anytime someone disagrees with you, the name calling begins. Are you calling Huckabee a liberal because he supports Dewhurst??This behavior will destroy the Republican Party and not help vote Obama out of office.
Well, Jason; I got you beat by 20 years: first conservative campaign was 1962; was Denton Count GOP Chairman about the time you STARTED.
Who am I? An American citizen, with the same rights and privileges under the Constitution and the First Amendment as you. I am FAR from alone in this group; our vetting committee had 11 people involved alone.
As for arrogance: would we be distributing the opinions of 4 other groups- along with our own- if we thought we had all the answers? The voters seem to appreciate that LACK of arrogance that ONLY our opinion matters.
as for ‘sleaze’ two years ago? The other side DID throw a bunch of sleaze and we called them on it- and the VOTERS agreed with us in all but one of the races (and that one was VERY close). Indeed, when the same consultant group came BACK this year to assist one candidate again, they STUDIOUSLY avoided sleaze this time (and for that, we are grateful. They got beat anyway)
Destroy reputations?? Since I only report what actually happens, that’s up to people and their OWN behavior.
Of course you and others have the right to recommend who you want, But it’s also our right to call others on insincere efforts at vetting candidates other than ‘I like that person’, or ‘she travels in all the right circles’, We put hundreds of hours into our efforts; did the Shadowy CCCC? Not very likely, especially showing up ONLY the week of early voting in the runoff.; We expect they spent more time pulling together and paying Craiglisters to distribute a countering listing.
Not taking anybody’s rights; we’re utilizing our own.
BTW: the Pilgrims DID first try a definitively socialistic method of resource allocation; it was a disaster and helped lead to a LOT of starvation that first winter; they learned VERY quickly. That was a lesson I was taught in school- and has been lost as ‘politically incorrect’ in modern schooling. But they weren’t communist enough to execute people for their lack of productivity for the ‘state’. .
Mike – you are without question the biggest political drama queen in Collin County. Do you work or does your job pay you to sit polls every election cycle? I really hope you’re not using all of your PTO on poll greeting…
I work full-time; sometimes 50-6o hours a week. It is 9:40pm and I have a couple hours ahead of me tonight. What I have is a strong work ethic that hasn’t been destroyed by mindless hours of network TV; I’ve NEVER sat through an episode of ‘American Idol’, for example.
All I do is report OTHER people’s drama; Heck, Terrri Green generates ENOUGH drama (like tonight at the Allen Area Patriots tonight) to fill multiple networks. I assure you, she lost ANY votes she had with that audience tonight (except for her entourage.)
“Mike – you are without question the biggest political drama queen in Collin County.”
Direct. Hit.
I’m just soooo crushed by Mark’s disapproval….and yours. I’ll drink a toast to both of you Tuesday night.
really?? I was at the AAP meeting and I thought Ms. Green gave a far more judicial performance. I planned on voting for Ben Smith until last night but his demeanor changed my mind.
As it should. The “vetting” done by this group for their judicial endorsements is laughable. You saw the real Ben Smith last night, and the notion he could be a presiding district judge ought to scare the pants off you. How anyone could vote for, much less endorse, such an inexperienced and unprepared person (and frankly as you saw, one of oddly poor temperament) for a court bench is beyond rational comprehension.
This of course argues strongly against voting for judges at all… but that is another story.
The Terri Green we saw there (No matter how many delusional Terribots suggest otherwise) and have seen at the polling locations really has made it clear she does NOT have the demeanor to be ANY kind of judge. Need I remind you that Terri has ALREADY won- by a LARGE marge- the grand prize in our Campaign Hall of Shame? http://northtexasteaparty.org/2012/05/26/the-campaign-hall-of-shame/
Jack, that’s just plain laughable. I certainly hope the video gets processed this afternoon. The plant who didn’t even know what she was going to file an ethics violation against Ben for??? Priceless!
I believe Ben’s supporter set that question up…
Bless Ben’s heart, Ms. Green had him all worked up, shaking and sweating, he better grow a thicker skin if he wants to be a district judge…
Jack, you also fail to point out that Carroll Maxwell, a man of total integrity with no specific dog in the hunt, testified that the Terri Green’s camp was fully lying about incidents at polling locations. Terri and her people better try growing some MORALS.
where exactly did Mr. Maxwell “testify” ? I did not realize this went to court…
OK Mike, I did some research on the CCCC. They have been around since 2010. The Texas Tea Party Alliance has added the CCCC ballot to their website. Starting to sound pretty official to me…
You mean the TTPA site, where either the webmaster has gone rogue (or their site WAS CRIMINALLY hacked- as is claimed), changing the group’s recommendations without notifying the groups leadership at all? The webmaster who thinks burial insurance circulars delivered to his door in a mass delivery is a personal threat (as Jay commented on Texas Trib). In conjunction with an empty PAC, no meetings, no vetting sessions, no activities, just paying Craiglister to put out separate paper. Fronts on top of shells. Good try.
But Mike they are tea partiers just like you, right? Tell me–who decides which groups are legitimate and which are not?
Collin County Conservative Republicans, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility and Young Conservatives of Texas are NOT Tea Party groups. They are groups of known standing, that have been vetting candidates for many cycles- and KNOWN to be doing so. They have other activities, meetings, and KNOWN members. All that is required for legitimacy- and lacking in CCCC.
I don’t know whether you are associated with the candidates, but either way, this article does not look good upon you or your the people you are representing.Attacking us (the paid “volunteers” you speak of) is not only ignorant of you,but cruel. I don’t know if there was any one hired with a criminal background or homeless, but I will say most of the employees were doing out of needing to get their bills paid, helping out our families, etc….. We did not enjoy or care for sitting out in the constant heat and hearing about the banter between the candidates and being caught in the cross fire, but unlike you, most of us are unemployed or underpaid due to these hard times. I pray that God will forgive you and will help you see the cruelty in this article.
P.S. Many of the people i encountered with the Coalition were kind and many of us (myself included) had degrees.