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Chad Koppie: Constitution Party US Senate Candidate for Illinois
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https://votevance2016.blogspot.com
Darryl Glenn: Republican Party US Senate Candidate for Colorado
Website: http://www.electdarrylglenn.com/
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Note: [ ] = my additions
Petition: City of Ogden, Utah don’t take residents’ homes through the misuse of eminent domain
https://www.change.org/p/city-of-ogden-hands-off-my-home?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=629858&alert_id=BECeKvquyG_BLHpq5IE3yqpDveni3uGt5Em01yhNmo7Ru0rHgj9hOI%3D
Petition to Big 12 Athletic Conference: Do Not Exclude Brigham Young University Because of its Religious Values
http://www.citizengo.org/en/36614-dont-exclude-byu-religious-values?m=5&tcid=26254878
Petition: STOP MASS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
http://americansecurity-coalition.com/stop-mass-illegal-immigration.aspx?pid=0823a
Restore the Constitution
Take Back the Nation
I am a Christian, Constitutionalist, conservative.
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/08/rock-bottom-establishment-money-and-lies-beats-conservative-warrior-in-Kansas
By: Daniel Horowitz | August 02, 2016
“It’s official: conservatives have no place in the Republican Party. [I agree. That is why I left and joined the Constitution Party. The Constitution Party is the only conservative party in the country that is in the top five of parties in membership. I just received notice today from the Constitution Party of Texas that Darrell Castle has qualified as a write-in candidate in Texas.]
Not only has every incumbent RINO been reelected in this ‘year of the outsider [Not correct. The next article corrects this misstatement. Two were defeated earlier in the year.].’ Not only has almost every open seat gone to the yes-men for K Street and GOP leadership [This is unfortunately true!]. One of the few brave conservative incumbents in the House has just been defeated by a shill for the big government lobbyists who lied to voters and ran as a conservative [The normal tactic for RINO (Republicans In Name Only) Republicans]. Thus, the only incumbent to be defeated this year was Tim Huelskamp, R-Ky. (A, 91%) in Kansas’s First District. You read that right: the only incumbent to go down in this glorious ‘populist’ revolution is one of the fiercest fighters against this rigged political system.
While everyone is a big hero now and ridicules John Boehner as a failure, Huelskamp was literally the first member to stand up to him [After he was lied to by John Boehner]. Now the lobbyists know how to pick our lock and will pick off the few remaining members who dare to defy those in the party who want to do nothing more than play interference for Democrats [The Capitulation Party].
So much for the revolution [Never was one from the Donald Trump camp.].
You can read more about this race in my post from last week.
Folks, at some point we need to stop exemplifying the definition of insanity [Agreed! Why I left the Republican Party after it left me!]. What we are doing is not working. The party runs candidates with tons of money who lie about who they are and smear our people as political insiders who are anything but true conservatives. The waters are so muddied that the candidate with the most money and lobbyist support wins.
We must be reminded of the admonition of Haggai:
‘You have sown much and you bring in little. You eat without being satiated. You drink without getting your fill. You dress, and it has no warmth. And he who profits, profits into a bundle with holes.’ [Haggai 1: 6]
It’s real simple: we either reform the primary system back to representative conventions where money and lobbyists are blunted by grassroots activists [The Establishment does not want party conventions! The activists at conventions are conservatives.] or we start a third party [Or join an already existing conservative party—the Constitution Party].
This current system is so rigged against principled constitutionalists that even when the voters agree with us on the issues, we have nothing to show for it this year but a candidate at the top who is tied with Hillary in several red states [Who is NOT a conservative!] and not a single conservative winning down ballot.
If 28 years of failure since Reagan has not proven that conservatives have no future in this party, tonight’s election should serve as a wakeup call [And the elections yesterday in Arizona and Florida!].”
The elections yesterday in Arizona and Florida
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/08/last-nights-elections-demonstrate-conservatives-have-no-place-in-this-party
By: Daniel Horowitz | August 31, 2016
“When conservatives are forced to find solace in the fact that one of their few incumbents wasn’t defeated in a primary and take that as good news, it’s a sign we are strangers in our own party.
Last night was the final major primary night of this election cycle. After Senator John McCain, R-Ariz. (F, 34%) managed to win reelection yet again, it has become clear that the elites within the party can stab conservatives in the back on a daily basis and still win reelection with a 100-percent success rate. Aside from two anomalous redistricting circumstances in Virginia and North Carolina, not a single incumbent Republican has been defeated … except for one of our own: Representative Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan. (A, 91%).
Let’s start with the good news first:
AZ-4:
After being the subject of hundreds of thousands of dollars in attack ads from special interests, such as the RightWayPAC and the Western Growers Association, Representative Paul Gosar, R-Ariz. (B, 83%) cruised to victory with 70% of the vote against his primary challenger. At least the Huelskamp dynamic is not repeating itself elsewhere. We can now celebrate the fact that we can keep the few good members left in the House.
Now for the bad news:
AZ Senate:
John McCain was re-nominated yet again with a double digit win over his challenger, state senator Kelly Ward. [Personally, I didn’t think Kelly Ward was a conservative. She was certainly better than John McCain!] There are no words in the English language to describe the degree of perfidy and betrayal this man has achieved in undermining conservatives over the years. He has scored more points for the other team than Democrats could have won had one of their own been occupying that seat for the past 15 years. [True! And that is what I think will happen if Donald Trump wins the Presidency! I think he is more of a Democrat than even John McCain! I was told by Republicans while living in Arizona that John McCain would be more comfortable as a Democrat in Massachusetts than he is as a Republican in Arizona!] Although he was extremely vulnerable, McCain’s ubiquitous name ID and huge war chest once again scared off first-tier candidates from challenging him. [Unfortunately true. Last year, I tried to encourage three current Republican Congressmen to run against him and none would even reply.]
McCain’s victory is all the more devastating because he is the first incumbent to have won six years ago by lying to primary voters and winning reelection yet again. In 2010, McCain won his primary by running all the way to the right and promising to ‘build the dang fence.’ Not only did McCain then turn around and push comprehensive amnesty [He was one of the “Gang of Eight.”], he voted against building the fence as a prerequisite for amnesty.
AZ-5:
Conservatives lose seats when good incumbents retire and we fail to replace them with likeminded conservatives. Representative Matt Salmon, R-Ariz. (B, 83%) is retiring after this year. He made sure to endorse state senator Andy Biggs, a man with a proven conservative record in the legislature, right out of the gate. But in came Christine Jones, a liberal millionaire who praised Hillary Clinton and accepted the premise of global warming … before she ran for House. By outspending Biggs by a margin of 3-1 and touting herself as an anti-Hillary conservative, Jones was able to pull out a very tight victory in a crowded and divided field. This conservative seat has just been flipped to the other side and will set back the Arizona delegation during the next session.
FL-1 and 2:
As our team observed last night, ‘ultimately, Tuesday’s primary proved a great night for the Republican establishment in Florida, with conservative challengers Rebekah Bydlak and Mary Thomas both losing to moderates with more money and higher name ID.’ In District two, Neal Dunn outspent Mary Thomas by about 2-1, but won by less than 2,000 votes. Dunn had the support of Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. (F, 38%) which gives us an indication of how he will vote from day one. Conservatives don’t care about identity politics, but the party elites are obsessed with it. As such, it’s awfully bizarre that the establishment would interfere in an open House primary to defeat Mary Thomas, an Indian-American millennial candidate [As far as I am concerned, in open primaries the leadership should stay out it! It should be the voters of the District who decides the candidate NOT the leadership from Washington! In fact, that includes incumbents! Let the voters decide!]. The message is clear: conservatives—of all stripes—must be defeated.
[Florida 1 from http://enight.elections.myflorida.com/FederalOffices/ Rebekah Bydlak lost badly which tells me that she was wanting in some way. As I said yesterday, I never received any information on this race.]
| Candidate | Votes Received | |
| Rebekah Johansen Bydlak | 07,689 | 7.78% came in 4th |
| Cris Dosev | 20,608 | 20.86% |
| Greg Evers | 21,532 | 21.8% |
| Brian Frazier | 03,816 | 3.86% |
| Matt Gaetz | 35,675 | 36.12% |
| Mark Wichern | 01,797 | 1.82% |
| James Zumwalt | 07,658 | 7.75% |
| 98,775 Total |
[Florida 2 from http://enight.elections.myflorida.com/FederalOffices/ This race was much closer.]
| Candidate | Votes Received | % |
| Neal Dunn | 33,873 | 41.38% |
| Ken Sukhia | 15,821 | 19.33% |
| Mary Thomas | 32,162 | 39.29% |
| 81,857 Total |
FL-19:
This was another seat that the establishment turned over in a way that is just as bad as Democrats picking up the seat. Representative Curt Clawson, R-Fla. (A, 94%) was one of the most conservative members in the House and helped lead the fight against John Boehner. Like a citizen legislator, he decided to retire after just one full term in the House. Now that seat will go to Francis Rooney, a man who has taken liberal positions on abortion and immigration. How did he win? Well, when you spend $3.5 million in an open House seat to say how conservative you are, and your opponents raise just a few hundred thousand, the outcome is never in contention.
[I did not receive e-mails on this either.
| Candidate | Votes Received | % |
| Dan Bongino | 15,434 | 17.39% (conservative) |
| Chauncey Goss | 26,520 | 29.88% |
| Francis Rooney | 46,800 | 52.73% |
| 88,754 Total |
In 2014, Dan Bongino ran for the House in Maryland. I don’t know the situation but he might have been considered a “carpetbagger” running in Florida two years later.]
FL-Senate:
Once Senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla. (C, 77%) announced his intention to run for reelection, most of the viable challengers dropped out and the outcome was never in contention. Regardless of how one feels about Rubio, it is a shame that Representative Ron DeSantis, R-Fla. (A, 90%) didn’t get a chance to win this seat for conservatives in November. He was the only viable conservative running for Senate across the map this year. Yet, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kan. (F, 42%) moved heaven and earth to ensure that Rubio would return to the race and box out DeSantis. Last night’s election seals the fate of the Senate: not a single movement conservative will be elected to the upper chamber this year [Not yet true. There is a conservative who won the nomination for the Senate in Colorado—Darryl Glenn!].
[There were four Republicans running for the Senate after Ron DeSantis dropped out of the race. He did win re-nomination for the House. Senator Rubio received almost 72% of the vote.
One positive that occurred in the Democratic Party. Alan Grayson lost badly in his bid for the Senate and his wife Dena Grayson came in third in her attempt to win the nomination for her husband’s House of Representatives seat in District 9. Next session their will be no Grayson in Congress!]
There you have it, folks. Conservatives have failed to knock off a single incumbent House or Senate member this year [Defeated two in the House!], failed to nominate a single conservative to an open Senate seat [We need more conservatives in both the House and the Senate but particularly in the Senate. We need to get to work now to get more conservatives in the Senate in 2018!], and have won very few open House seats.
Primaries are all about name recognition and name ID is all about money or reality TV status. This is why Donald Trump won the presidential primary after receiving billions of dollars in endless free and exclusive media coverage. And that is the same reason why Rubio, McCain, Rooney, and Jones won last night and why the establishment is winning down the ballot. There is no great outsider’s insurgency taking place. It’s all about name ID – as has been the case in every election. Sadly, ninety-five percent of the time the factor of name recognition will favor the non-conservative candidate. What is so frustrating is that the establishment runs their candidates as movement conservatives and uses their superior firepower to promote our message … until the primaries are over.
Once again, it is clear conservatives have no future in the party as it is currently constituted. Most of those elected in primaries this year will do nothing to combat Hillary Clinton in Congress if she becomes president. If Republicans lose the general election, conservatives have two choices: either pursue wholesale reform of the primary process or start a new party [Or join the only conservative Party now in existence—the Constitution Party of America].”
It is time for conservatives to join other conservatives and BUILD the Constitution Party into one of the two major parties!
You can not win the election if you do not run for the office. You can not win the election if you do not get on the ballot.
Vote Darrell Castle for President. The Constitutional Conservative!
I am a Christian, Constitutionalist, conservative.
Restore the Constitution
Take Back the Nation
For Life, for liberty
Don L. Vance
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