Every Tea Party Patriot Should Read This!

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I did not write the following article, but it lays out EXACTLY what we, as a movement, must do, if we want to be a true “Force to be reckoned with!”

The Author, is Gary North, http://www.garynorth.com, a well respected, and long-time “hard-core” conservative activist.

Eight Unbreakable Rules for Hard-Core Tea Party Activists (or Any Other Special-Interest Coalition)

I joined the conservative movement in 1956 when I joined Fred Schwarz’s Christian Anti-Communism Crusade. I wrote an anti-FDR high school term paper in 1958. I supported the Goldwater for Vice President movement in 1960. I voted for Goldwater for President in 1964. I voted for Reagan’s Republican primary gubernatorial challenger in 1966, William Penn Patrick, because I thought Reagan was too liberal. (I was right; he imposed income tax withholding in his first term as governor.) I was Ron Paul’s first research assistant in 1976.

I am hard core. I have been hard core for a long time.

I am writing this for those of you who are equally hard core.

Here are ten facts of American national politics that you must understand to get meaningful change.

1. You can’t beat something with nothing.
2. 80% of politicians respond only to two things: (1) fear; (2) pain.
3. Bureaucrats (tenured) respond only to one thing: budget cuts.
4. Political reform never comes as long as the tax money flows in.
5. The #1 goal is to reduce the government’s funds, not re-direct them.
6. Congress’s club system sucks in 80% of new members by term #2.
7. Politicians listen to their peers, not to their constituents.
8. Money from the government buys off most voters.
9. Most citizens care little about politics and know less.
10. This gives influence to organized swing-vote blocs.

The political system was summed up a generation ago by the man I regard as the elder statesman of the hard-core wing of the American conservative movement, M. Stanton Evans: “Evans’s Law of Political Perfidy.”

When our friends get into power, they aren’t our friends any more.

To this, I add North’s Law of Partisan Politics:

When a movement is in either political party’s hip pocket, it will be sat on.

If you do not believe this, then you are a sheep for the shearing — and then, after several shearings, the roasting. You are on some politician’s menu.
THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

These are eight basic rules of engagement. There may be others, but these are fundamental. If you do not believe these, you are headed for disappointment.

1. Vote for a hard-core challenger on the other side against a squishy incumbent. This rule separates the hard core members from the soft core members. It has a corollary: A first-term incumbent next election is easier to beat than a squishy incumbent this election. It is always hard to defeat an incumbent. Do what you can to defeat any incumbent, no matter which party he belongs to, if he is squishy on the issue you regard as fundamental. Why is this so important? Incumbents must become deathly afraid of your movement. Take out a few dozen of them in the next election and the one that follows, and many others will cooperate. As Sen. Everett Dirksen put it so long ago, “When we feel the heat, we see the light.” In short, you do not settle for the lesser of two evils. You eliminate them both, one election at a time: first the softie, then the newbie.

2. Hold your newly elected politician’s feet to the fire the first time he breaks ranks on a key vote. He is like a puppy. When he leaves a mess on the carpet, get out the switch. “Bad dog! Bad dog!” Let him remember that switch. Let him fear that switch. The second time he does it, warm up the car. You and he will be taking a trip to the pound. You are his voter only for as long as he is your representative. Politicians respond to only two things: fear and pain.

3. Get him to sign a resignation letter. Before you work for him, make sure he has signed a resignation letter. This letter says the following:

To the voters of [district, state]:I am making this public. If I ever vote for [whatever], I will turn in my letter of resignation to the [government body] within 24 hours.

If I fail to do this, I expect voters to vote against me at the next election, since I clearly cannot be trusted.

I expect my opponent in the primary to defeat me next time, and if he doesn’t, my opponent in the general election will. And should.

Very truly yours,

Name Candidate for [whatever]

This is a political suicide letter. You will see who is serious about your #1 issue and who is not by means of a signed resignation letter. Post it online. If he refuses to sign it, start working to undermine him after he defeats the squishy incumbent. Above all, do not trust him.

No candidate will sign more than a few of these. Any candidate who will not sign at least one is just another glory-seeking, power-seeking, retirement bonanza-seeking political hack. Like a drone bee who is useful only once in his life, he is useful for only one thing: defeating a squishy incumbent.

You say he refuses to sign? Don’t donate any money or time to his campaign. You should vote for him against a squishy incumbent, but you will immediately start working to replace him.

4. Track all of his votes on your #1 issue, and post them online. The Congress deliberately seeks to conceal voting results. Your committee must keep track of every vote related to your interest. This means that someone must follow the voting schedule. If there is no record of his vote, call his office. Ask for an email with his vote recorded. My suggestion: make sure he has an assistant send an email to your committee after every vote in this area, explaining it. Post all of this without alteration. If he breaks ranks, make sure you have a clear statement of why this was a bad vote.

This is boring. This is time-consuming. This is vital. You must see if there is a pattern in his voting on your issue.

I wish there were watchdog sites that cover every vote. Be sure there is one for your special interest.

WordPress is free (www.WordPress.org). A domain name costs $10 a year to register. A multi-site hosting service like Hostgator is $10 a month or less. Have a separate site for every candidate and elected official.

This would make a great civics project for home schoolers: track a candidate for the school year. Then turn the task over to a new student. Have the committee run the sites, but students can do the grunt work. It is good practice.

5. Find out who his largest campaign donors are. This will tell you who will have the most clout when he takes office. Investigate the PACs. Investigate the donors who send in the maximum donation allowed. Are they members of one group? Post this information on the site that you set up to monitor his votes.

6. Instill fear. This is your #1 task, once he takes office.

7. Inflict pain. This is the basis of #6.

8. Trust, but verify. If your group refuses to verify, it should not trust.
CONCLUSION

Politics is not based on love, because civil government is based on coercion. Do not impose “tough love” on a politician. He is not to love you. He is to obey you. You are not to love him. You are to monitor him. Impose negative sanctions and positive sanctions wisely.

Politicians surround themselves with young men and young women who serve as staffers, plus a few old-timers who have survived in the staffing system and who are unimpressed with their bosses, but are even less impressed with the boss’s constituents. Politicians spend time in each other’s company. They are not much impressed with their colleagues, but they are very impressed with themselves. They are not impressed by their constituents. Finally, they spend time raising money. So, they have to spend time with lobbyists.

I shall now end my little lesson on politics with a verbatim citation from one of the great masters of state-wide politics, Jesse Unruh. He was the Speaker of the California Assembly in the late 1960s. He was known as Big Daddy. He ran against Ronald Reagan in 1970 and lost. But he later was elected state Treasurer. Here is what he said about the proper attitude toward lobbyists:

“If you can’t eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women, and still vote against them, you have no business being up here.”

So committed was he to this philosophy of life that he chose to die of prostate cancer at age 65 rather than have his prostate surgically removed, because he would not risk the sexual impotence that might result from surgical removal.

He loved dealing with lobbyists.

We are dealing with dedicated people. We are dealing with power-seeking, often ruthless people. Don’t try to buy them off. Don’t try to sweet-talk them. If they don’t vote the way you want them to vote, defeat them. This, they understand. This, they fear.

Either they are on your menu, or you are on theirs. I suggest the former.

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Race Tightening for GOP Governor Nomination in Oklahoma!

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For Immediate release

July 22, 2010

Contact: Rick Carpenter 918-638-6722

GOP Governors Race Tightens

Fallin 37%, Brogdon 26%, Undecided 37%

A survey conducted this week by the Brogdon campaign shows a considerable tightening in the GOP race for Governor. The phone survey was automated and asked participants to push a button with the corresponding choice of Mary Fallin, Randy Brogdon and Undecided.

The survey asked few questions, therefore no crosstabs are available. Brogdon Communications Director Rick Carpenter, who conducted the survey, said “Although the survey was not deep in its reach, it was broad. These numbers are based on over 12,000 complete responses from voters representatively distributed across the state. That is the largest sample of any poll made public.”

A similar survey conducted 6 weeks ago by the Brogdon campaign but not released publicly, showed Brogdon: 11%, Fallin: 36%, and Undecided: 53%. Since then Brogdon has gained 15% while Fallin has been statistically flat. “Not every campaign can afford a DC polling firm, we have to make-do,” said Carpenter. “However, this is an accurate snapshot of where the horserace is right now. They might not admit it, but the Fallin campaign knows its true.”

Candidate Randy Brogdon said he always knew his message would move voters, and “as awareness of the race has grown so has our support. I have seen it at our campaign events and in the number of volunteers showing up to help.” Brogdon continued, “a lot of people have burned up a lot of shoe rubber and its making up for a lot of money we just don’t have. Also, many voters are just becoming aware of Rep. fallin’s support for the banking bailout.”

Brogdon said he has always felt he was going to win because “the Lord has called me to this task.” Brogdon credits part of his success to the fact that his campaign has been more issue oriented, and that he has been a more accessible candidate than his opponent, “I’ve shown up anywhere people will listen and I have stayed until the crowd runs out of questions.” However, most of the credit goes to thousands of volunteers. “I am going to have a lot of people to thank on election night and none of them will be lobbyists or their checkbooks,” concluded Brogdon.

Some Interesting Speeches from Mary Fallin

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Here are some sound bites from Bailout voting RINO Mary Fallin. If you are still a Mary Fallin supporter after listening to all of these, then you are NOT a Conservative! You are a Big Government loving, Nanny State teet sucking Liberal! (The opinions expressed in this blog DO represent the feelings and opinions of the author and founder of the Tulsa Tea Party!)

Especially listen closely to the last video around the 4 minute mark, when she says that the Constitution is the “easy way out.”

Nathan Dahm for US Congress Oklahoma District 1

This is Nathan Dahm’s Commercial in the Oklahoma 1st Congressional District Primary Race!

Who Is Your Pick for the Oklahoma US Congress District 1 GOP Primary?

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Final Results of the Poll:

Total votes Cast: 211

Nathan Dahm: 101

Patrick Haworth: 59

John Sullivan: 36

Kenneth Rice: 14

Fran Moghaddam: 1

Again, this poll had some issues, because I forgot to block both Cookies an IP addresses from Repeat voting, when I first released it. This led to one candidates camp figuring that out, and gaming the system, so that their numbers were increasing at a rate of approximately 20 votes per minute. So, I deleted that poll, and recreated it. Following that, the poll moved at a more normal rate. So, these numbers ARE representative of the readers of this blog, and those whom I reach through Twitter and Facebook.

These numbers, actually, are fairly similar to most of the Straw Polls that have been run in District 1 in the last 3 months, with one exception. While Nathan Dahm continues to gain steam, and John Sullivan continues to lose ground, Sullivan’s decline is accelerating,  and a 2nd candidate has passed him. Patrick Haworth is starting to make noise, and it looks like this race may come down to the 2 newcomers, with the RINO Bailout voter John Sullivan being the odd man out. Also, as I have said before, both Kenneth Rice and Fran Moghaddam, are non-factors in this race!

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Because of the Questionable way in which the numbers were moving in the previous poll, I have deleted it, and started over!

Who is your pick for the Oklahoma Lt Governor GOP Primary?

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Final Poll Results

Total Votes: 105

John A Wright: 79

Todd Lamb: 17

Paul Nosak: 9

This race really doesn’t seem to have captured quite the interest of most of the other races. However, it looks like, amongst the hardcore Tea Party Movement, which are most of my readers, that John Wright, like Randy Brogdon, really resonates. His high conservative rating during his time in the State House of Representatives, as opposed to the Lukewarm Conservative rating of Todd Lamb, definitely carries alot of weight. Paul Nosak, is starting to gain a little ground in some of the straw polls, he still trails both Wright & Lamb.

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Results of Monday’s Tulsa Straw Poll

As sent to me by Harold Vermillion of http://www.OkforTea.com

So, we all think that Kris messed up on the numbers but the following is what she said and we have it all on tape. She also failed to tell the results of a few of the votes. And any missing percentages is appearently undecided votes.

UNITED STATES SENATOR
Tom Coburn 91%
Lewis Kelly Spring .03%

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, DISTRICT 01
John Sullivan 33%
Craig Allen .03%
Nathan Dahm 31%
Fran Moghaddam .01%
Kenneth Rice .03%
Patrick K. Haworth .09%

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, DISTRICT 02
Charles Thompson 84%

GOVERNOR
Roger L. Jackson 1%
Mary Fallin 14%
Randy Brogdon 68%
Robert Hubbard 1%

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Todd Lamb 33%
John A. Wright 35%
Paul F. Nosak 32%

ATTORNEY GENERAL
Ryan Leonard 23%
Scott Pruitt 59%

STATE TREASURER
Owen Laughlin 47%
Ken Miller 32%

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
Janet Barresi 77%
Brian S. Kelly .03%

COMMISSIONER OF LABOR
Mark Costello 52%
Jason Reese 19%

INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
John Doak 67%
Mark Croucher .06%
John P. Crawford .006%

CORPORATION COMMISSIONER
Dana Murphy 78%
Tod Yeager .03%

STATE SENATOR, DISTRICT 34
Rick Brinkley 29%
Tim Coager 26%

STATE REPRESENTATIVE, DISTRICT 68
Glen Mulready 43%
Howard Pidcock .04%

STATE REPRESENTATIVE, DISTRICT 76
David Brumbaugh 37%
Tony Curtis Griffith 10%

TULSA COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 1
John Smaligo 46%
Tracey Wilson 17%

TULSA COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 3
Fred Perry 25%
Drew Reese 45%
Michael Masters .01%

TULSA COUNTY TREASURER
Dennis Semler 18%
Ruth Hartje 47%

These numbers show a continually growing strength for the Tea Party and Liberty Candidates, and a downwardly spiraling trend for the incumbents who voted for TARP bailout program. It is beginning to look like Randy Brogdon will easily carry the Tulsa area in the July 27th Primary, as his Primary opponent Mary Fallin has been lost even more ground, since the February Tulsa County GOP Straw Poll!

Also, Representative John Sullivan (who also voted Yes on the TARP Bailout), of Congressional District 1, has lost his 2 to 1 advantage over Challenger Nathan Dahm. They are now in an apparent Dead Heat, with nearly 3 weeks to go.

However, the real surprise for me, is the State Senate District 34 race, which is the seat Randy Brogdon is vacating. Well-known President of the Republican Club, Rick Brinkley is in a virtual dead-heat with unknown Tim Coager. This looks like another case of Tea Party vs Establishment, and superior name recognition is not enough to carry the tide over the populist movement that is the Tea Party.

Another surprise is the Lt Governor’s race, where, despite running an almost completely underground campaign, State Rep john Wright, has a slight lead over the Establishment choice, Todd Lamb.

Well, that’s my take on the latest polling numbers. What do you think? It’s going to be a very interesting Primary season for the GOP in Oklahoma, that’s for sure!

Tulsa Tea Party Founder Endorses Nathan Dahm For US Congress Ok District 1

Tulsa Tea Party founder, Jai Blevins, today announces his endorsement of Nathan Dahm in the GOP Primary for Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District.

Mr. Dahm has set himself apart from the other candidates, including incumbent John Sullivan, though his Oath to Oklahoma, a pledge that includes commitments to a self-imposed term limit, refusal of Congressional perks, working to protect the 2nd Amendment, and working to Audit, and end, the Federal Reserve. Mr. Dahm has been a supporter of, and involved in, the Tea Party Movement in the Tulsa area, since it’sinception on Feb 27, 2009. He believes in, and stands for the ideals of the Tea Party, and is the candidate for the Tulsa Tea party.

I urge everyone to visit his website, and read his positions on the issues affecting America, and I believe that you will agree.

Last Chance to Vote in the Oklahoma Governor’s Poll! #oktcot #okgov #fb

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All right, the Governor’s poll will be ending this Friday, so if you haven’t voted, please do so soon!!

Currently, Randy Brogdon is carrying 61% of the vote, while Mary Fallin hhas 30%, Jari Askins has 6% and Drew Edmondson has 3%.

These numbers can change dramatically, though, as only 94 votes have been recorded so far!

So, please, vote, and let your voice be heard!

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Some Criticize the Tea Party for Allowing Political Candidates to Speak #fb

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Some say that NO CANDIDATE should be allowed to speak at these get togethers no matter who they are or from what party they belong.

I disagree with the NO CANDIDATE, MANDATE.

If the purpose of the Tea party is to effect REAL Change, by peaceful means, then we must publicly invite to speak, and listen to local candidates that meet the criteria, and have proven track records of living by, the Tea party ideals.

It is beyond frustrating, to me, to have people who have not helped, nor volunteered to help, organize these rallies, sit back and complain about how they are done.

The point is to get the message across, and to allow for We the People, to hear from candidates who are striving to make a real difference.

If we don’t, we might as well be “he who beateth the air”, that the Bible speaks about!

Come ON people! It is time to throw off wishful thinking, and GET INVOLVED!! If you are not registered with one of the two major parties, then you are cutting off your own hands! If you don’t vote in the primaries, then SHUT UP about the choices we have in the General Election!

Now, if that pisses you off, so be it! You still need  to do it, or the whole experiment in Freedom and Liberty, that is America, is finished!

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