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July 27, 2008 03:21 PM UTC
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Garcia and his buddies at the EPC GOP have been showing favoritism for people like John Newsome and Jeff Crank for a long time. For more information on their double standard, you can read here.
http://www.coloradopols.com/sh…
…and not just at the county level. The party has a group of bad actors throughout.
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This year, this election cycle,
Republicans need to redefine who they are and what they stand for.
The Democratic Party has staked out a claim to being the party of the BIG TENT, where all are welcome, regardless of values, beliefs, principles or policies.
Consequently, the Dems stand for little besides “diversity” and “tolerance.”
Don’t get me wrong. Those are good principles, in theory.
But they are not enough to form a coherent governing philosophy.
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The GOP needs to draw a sharp contrast to focus on their core principles.
What exactly does the party stand for ?
If that means that some to the Left of the Party’s center decide to splinter off, so be it.
If that means that some to the Right of the Party’s center decide to go join the American Constitution Party, let them go.
The GOP needs to get back to the basics. Acknowledge where President Bush has led you.
Know who you are and what you stand for.
Be proud.
And for those Republicans who don’t particularly like what has become of the party, either locally or nationally,
you can always do the right thing and quit.
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What is the source of your quote.
That’s obviously a hypothetical quote that assumes there remain Republicans honest enough to admit the legacy of the Bush Administration. Big assumption.
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just as Red / Green suggested.
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It’s an honest Liar. 🙂
Just be glad Greg Garcia is not monitoring this blog. He’s got a lie detector and he’s not afraid to use it.
I hope other Republican clubs will show similar boldness. We all need to call the party to purge itself of this divisive leadership.
He’s such an obviously partisan hack for Crank. And Hotling should be elected the new party chair.
I know you were being funny, but replacing Garcia must be someone people respect.
The only person I can think of is our parliamentarian and former county chair Wayne Williams. Williams is currently a county commissioner from the north district, and may not have the time.
So if not Wayne, who should be named?
Republicans, be serious. Lib’s have at it.
And No, Doug Bruce is not available. Sorry I spoiled that obvious thread for you, think hard and you can come up with something original.
Doug is a good guy and will need something to do after the primary. Congressman Rayburn will need all the help he can get in unifying the party after Crank, Garcia and Fisk tear it apart.
Lamborn will win, despite the best efforts of an organized campaign of party insiders to sabotage the truth.
But you bring up a good point. Bentley Rayburn good use his organization skills in cleaning out and restoring integrity to the local party. I would contribute to the party again if it was run by Bentley Rayburn.
Before I saw Garcia’s op-ed, I said this:
Someone post a link to Garcia’s op-ed or “editorial” you all keep referring to, please.
http://www.gopelpaso.com/whatw…
Garcia has publicly “called out” the Rayburn Campaign for saying the General is the only person in the race who is not a lobbyist or a lawyer.
That statement is true.
While Doug Lamborn is not currently practicing law as he currently is a US Congressman from the Colorado 5th district, he is in fact a lawyer.
Jeff Crank is currently a full time candidate and not currently a lobbyist, but in the recent past he was a registered lobbyist. He has admitted such on several occasions. Its a matter of public record.
The General is a retired General, and has never been any of the above. I say that’s not a ringing endorsement of Rayburn’s diversity of experience, but if he wants to pay to make the truthful claim, why should Greg Garcia step in, and under color of authority of our Party chairman, cause Rayburn public embarrassment and hurt his campaign calling Rayburn a liar, when he is a lot of things, but a liar is not one of them.
If you are a prostitute for 11 months, and quit 2 months before you run for office, is Garcia going to insist you be called a former whore instead of a whore. Is the distinction or difference substantial enough to warrant labeling the non-whore candidate untruthful (or translation) liar.
At the very least, Garcia should know that the position he is taking is one that requires him to be the values cop and act in the name of the entire party on issues that have not been approved by that party’s membership.
A biased judge does not make for the furtherance of justice. Garcia has put himself into the judgment position in an unprecedented and unwise manner.
Greg, Judge not, least ye be so judged.
Do the by-laws say he can be chair again?
Who is in the Club and which of them has signed the letter?
why do you say so? I’ve never heard that Falcon had any particular influence within the EPC GOP. And why would it? it’s tiny, tiny, tiny.
has been at the forefront of many important issues effecting eastern Colorado Springs and the “Falcon ” area. Its boundaries run from Powers blvd east to Peyton, a vital and growing area of our city and county.
Their influence is well know in the Falcon community.
http://findarticles.com/p/arti…
http://www.newfalconherald.com…
I asked a club member for some examples.
The RCF organized individuals who distributed the only opposition information fliers that resulted in the defeat of 2 separate property tax increases.
RCF recruited and endorsed candidates for the D-49 school board and with addition of the 3 backed candidates (plus one appointed also a club member), the majority of the Falcon school board has gone from Dem’s and Moderate R’s to RCF conservatives in the 4 short years the club has been in existence.
RCF sponsored and held debates between the candidates in HD-15, and will do so in the future.
The RCF has had guest speakers and Republican candidates address the members that include Dave Crater of the Wilberforce center, D-49 School Board President Anna Bartha (and former school board president Dave Stark), US Congressman Doug Lamborn, EPC County Commissioner Amy Lathern, State Rep and former EPC Commissioner Doug Bruce, State Rep. Marsha Looper, State Rep. Amy Stevens, State Senator Bill Cadman, State Rep Kent Lambert, and many more.
They have club members that are Republican division leaders, several precinct leaders, US House Congressional staff, School Board members, Falcon/Peyton Masterplan committee members, Airport Board members, etc.
The RCF has club members that have worked every major campaign in our area since its inception 4 short years ago.
Name another EPC Republican Club that has been instrumental in defeating 2 tax issues, and changed the majority philosophy on a school board, or any elected board.
The RCF is a Bellwether Republican Club in EPC. They don’t just sit around passing resolutions.
That’s your organization, isn’t it?
No, don’t work for or belong to the Wilberforce Center. Enjoyed Dave Craters article
http://backboneamerica.net/200…
But I have only met him once.
…but I take your post. This seems be an active group. As to its influence outside of Falcon, we’ll see.
after the RCF complaint is heard by state party chair Dick Waddams today, we will know if the RCF has any influence won’t we.
While I see where it would piss off fans of Dan May, I don’t see where it equates to support for John Newsome. Dan May’s claim is factually incorrect, the County Commission does not have the authority to raise public official’s pay.
This sounds like another attempt of the Lamborn/Bruce/May wing of the party to hammer everyone else for not falling in line with them.
Garcia is the constant target of attacks from the Lamborn people, I don’t see how this is any different. Garcia might set himself up for this by the way he handles things, but if the RCF is going to claim that Garcia is openly supporting a candidate in the primary, they might do well for themselves by coming up with something a little more concrete then “he said ‘Dan May lied'”.
I gave an example above, address my example if you have a minute.
And while you’re at it, name one EPC County chairman (R or D) in the last 20 years that has injected himself into a primary contest and appointed himself as the arbiter and judge of truthfulness in campaign commercials or literature.
This bias favors your guy right now, but try to address this as if he was a Lamborn or Rayburn supporter doing the same thing to Jeff Crank he is doing to Rayburn and Lamborn.
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This whole argument is being misrepresented in that it is basically suggesting that Greg Garcia has endorsed a candidate. He has not.
He’s calling out people for what they’re saying. He never said who someone should support (or not support).
To call on him to resign over that seems a bit ridiculous.
The section of the by-law they referenced doesn’t even hold water in this case, again because Garcia’s statement doesn’t say who people should vote for (or vote against). As such, how else am I supposed to view it other then pissed off Lamborn folks taking their frustration over the fact that not everyone loves Lamborn or Dan May out on Greg Garcia?
party chair to stay out of a divisive primary battle, and to cease making value judgments about truth and merit of advertisements and campaign literature that the chair has no mandate to do.
This sets the chairman up as Judge and his arbitrary decision carries the weight of the party that he heads. Big Mistake.
It is certainly arguable to say that it’s not the chair’s role to play the referee in a contested primary.
But playing the referee isn’t the same as picking sides, and as such the RCF’s claim of Garcia violating the by-laws has no teeth. And every time a charge is hurled without merit, or someone is called on to resign over a disagreement, the one initiating that charge loses credibility.
who Garcia will be voting for and who he supports and who he supported in 2006. It was inappropriate for him to step in and point fingers. Although he has not come out and said, “I endorse Jeff Crank in 2008” he has done everything short of that, like singling out Jeff’s opponents in his letter while ignoring the fact that according to his standard, Crank is in worse violation of his “standard.” Did it really show impartiality to include Bentley’s use of the word “Lobbyist” as not being accurate in the “present tense?” Who is this guy? Crank is a lobbyist, Lamborn is an attorney, and Rayburn is a Major General. For Garcia to claim that there is something unscrupulous or even something worth mentioning, shows his favoritism. The point is, Garcia lacks either judgment or integrity, neither of which should be missing from a party chair’s set of attributes, assuming the party members desire their chair to have credibility.
I don’t understand that at all. Calling someone out on their crap automatically makes you a supporter of the opposing side? So when I decry corruption within the Republican party, that makes me a supporter of the Democrats? How does that work?
Sorry but the accusation doesn’t hold water, and there is no reason for Garcia to resign. People have had their knives out for Garcia’s back for a while now, but the accusations have always come from the same echo chamber (remember when the Rayburn guy added Garcia’s name to Jeff Crank’s site as an endorsement?).
Garcia isn’t doing a perfect job, but he’s doing a good job. The fact that he supported a different candidate during the last cycle is apparently enough to condemn him if you view everything he does through that glass.
I believe you are referring to my statement
I did not say that pointing out error was unscrupulous. When I used the word unscrupulous, I was referring to the fact that Garcia was singling out individual candidates, questioning THEIR “scruples,” I said that he acted “inappropriately” but did not use the word unscrupulous to describe Garcia or his actions.
You did not use that word. I apologize, I read that quickly and responded even faster.
However, the point still stands that you folks are viewing everything that Garcia does through the glass of who he supported in 2006.
Now Garcia has modified his position to make you people happy. But will you be?
No, but it is enough to show he is not unbiased when many point out the excesses of the Crank Campaign and they get a pass, but the two other campaigns get a spotlight with the weight of the party in condemnation for minor differences.
Rayburn refers to former lobbyist Jeff Crank as a lobbyist, and now the General is a liar, so branded by the chairman of his own party. Not appropriate, not even close to it. Even if Greg’s intentions were good, his execution and lack of equal treatment are bad for the party. Garcia is wrong on this. PERIOD.
(of course, I have a bias…)
Quick bring Culpepper back maybe he could help..
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Does he own a set of dueling pistols ?
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thinks he does!
Several months ago Susie Que and I pointed out that Greg Garcia was not a good chairman. For so many reasons. You all came back with some pretty negative comments. Looks like the shoe is on the other foot now. I guess I should say “how dare you criticise this wonderful guy who has clearly brought about unity in the party, raised tons of money, etc. etc.” However I can’t because it simply isn’t true. I should also ask for an appology. But I guess it just took you all longer to figure him out.