Comments on: Tea for Two?

By: Bill Pojunis

Bill Pojunis — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:47:58 +0000

Jane, you need to do some homework on the National Precinct Alliance, especially on Phil Glass, the founder. We in Nevada are becoming particularly incensed about the fact that this organization WHICH DID NOT EVEN EXIST at the time we organized and used the Precinct Strategy we adopted from a site called http://www.wagthedog2010.com (after viewing the video placed on that site by Jim Condit, Jr.) and seeing that it made sense to us to go that route, rather than embrace the notion of a third party endeavor. We who organized the various “grassroots” 912, Glenn Beck and other internet groups operated solely upon the guidelines outlined in the video “The Strangest Political Secret”. While Tony Warren, who lists himself as one of the co-founders of the National Precinct Alliance, was a PARTICIPANT, mostly an observer, who had NO LEADERSHIP ROLE in any of the groups, and did not even belong to the Leadership Coalition who designed and implemented the entire effort, has attempted to use this peripheral involvement as the justification to credit his new group with our efforts, the truth is, he played no role in doing anything except participating and then blogging all over the Internet wherever he could put out his account of how HE had done so much. The rest of us, who actually know what he did, paid little attention until he launched a vicious attack at former members of the Republican party’s executive officers and board, leading us to discover what he had been up to. The TEA Party movement has serious detractors, all tending to try to dismiss what we are doing as anti-government, right-wing extremists, and so on, and this group, the National Precinct Alliance, and its affiliation with FreedomForce.us may very well be setting up the TEA Party movement to take a huge fall. While presenting themselves as a legitimate TEA Party-type organization, J.B.Williams, the force behind FreedomForce.us, merged with the National Precinct Alliance, based upon the former’s ability to raise funds. Phil Glass stated, in the early days of the National Precinct Alliance, that he wanted to raise $150 million, in order to “Buy Congress” since that was all they understood, and we could outbid the lobbyists. This position runs directly counter to the goals and aims of the Tea Party, “Grass Roots”, Glenn Beck and any other patriotic group with whom I have any contact, and it distresses us greatly that someone would try to hijack this strategy for this purpose. So, as a journalist, I would hope that you investigate this former mortgage banker, self-proclaimed proponent of a strategy he stole from another, and then revisit this group in a new light.
It would seem highly unlikely that a group which only came into existence almost a full six months after we had staged the “takeover” of the Clark County Republican Party could have had any role in our “success” as they repeatedly claim in the media, and it really pisses us off – sorry for that, but we are getting very tired of this group trying to take credit for something with which they had NO involvement! The real story can be found on the site I referenced above. If you would like to check anything I stated here, all you need do is contact anyone at the Clark County Republican Party.

By: Jane Chastain

Jane Chastain — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:08:01 +0000

Jim,

I understand your frustration but most precinct meetings are at night and if you will try it you will see that you get more bang for the buck time-wise than with any other political activity. Takes about as much time as watching a football game once a month.

By: Jim Dean

Jim Dean — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:50:30 +0000

This is a real Catch 22 situation. My problem and I’m sure that of many other conservatives is that we are out there trying to earn a living and do not take time to get involved in local politics. The people who have the most time for politics are the non-workers and they are the ones asking for more of our tax dollars.

If we earn a living in this great country, the non-workers run it. If we get involved in politics, we don’t have time to earn a living. The constitution is supposed to protect us, but the non-workers have figured out many ways to get around that minor bump in the road.

By: Darrel

Darrel — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:26:55 +0000

you’re right Jane, but unfortuantely, we are uneducated about how things are done at the precinct level. In my 72 years, it wasn’t until this year that I was educated about the precinct processs and how it can work to make real change. It is one of those things, along with the Constitution, that are left out of the public education process .

As far as the TeaParty movement goes, again, you are right. It is being co-opted by mainstream Republicans and will soon become useless for the American people. When I see such as Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck taking an active part in the Teaparty movement, it is clear that they are trying to neuter it into becoming blended into the existing system. I fear their efforts will work.