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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Thursday, January 1, 2015

McCain purges Tea Party from Arizona GOP



Purging the Tea Party

  • It is a myth that the GOP is "Conservative".  The Republican Party has been the party of the Marxist income tax and Big Government since the days of Theodore Roosevelt.
  • The rule by an Elite Oligarchy must be ended.  In any other nation on earth the Tea Party would be an actual independent political party that represented their voters.  We need true election reform now to re-create a multiparty republic where all factions of society are represented.

(Politico)  -  Nearly a year ago, tea party agitators in Arizona managed to get John McCain censured by his own state party. Now, he’s getting his revenge.

As the longtime Republican senator lays the groundwork for a likely 2016 reelection bid, his political team is engaging in an aggressive and systematic campaign to reshape the state GOP apparatus by ridding it of conservative firebrands and replacing them with steadfast allies.

The ambitious effort — detailed to POLITICO by nearly a dozen McCain operatives, donors, and friends — has stretched from office buildings in Alexandria, Virginia, where strategists plotted and fundraisers collected cash for a super PAC, to Vietnamese-American communities across Arizona, where recruiters sought out supporters eager to help the incumbent defeat the tea party.

Team McCain’s goal? Unseat conservative activists who hold obscure, but influential, local party offices.

Under the byzantine rules of Arizona Republican Party politics, these elected officials, known as precinct committeemen, vote for local party chairmen. The chairmen, in turn, determine how state and local GOP funds are spent, which candidates are promoted in an election year, and which political issues are highlighted — all matters of central concern for McCain heading into 2016, when the threat of a primary looms.

Prior to Aug. 26, when the races for the party offices were held, the vast majority of the 3,925 precinct slots were filled by people McCain’s team considered opponents. Now, after an influx of candidates were recruited by the senator’s allies, around 40 percent of those offices — 1,531 to be exact — will be held by people McCain’s team regards as friendly. They will have the power to vote down hostile Republican chairmen in each of their respective localities.

“There’s been a huge organizational effort that I’ve never seen before,” said Gordon James, an Arizona public relations executive and longtime McCain confidant. “A lot of the party folks who were hostile to John McCain have been marginalized, and that’s a good thing.”

The biggest foe to fall: Timothy Schwartz, the man who authored the McCain censure resolution. Earlier this month, Schwartz was ousted from his post as a GOP legislative district chairman by a group of newly elected precinct committeemen who voted in favor of a McCain-aligned candidate. Another outspoken McCain detractor, A.J. LaFaro, recently announced that he wouldn’t be seeking reelection to the Maricopa County Republican chairmanship, a tacit recognition that he didn’t have enough support to win.

In an interview, Schwartz blamed his ouster squarely on McCain, whom he said had singled him out. “It’s very clear what’s going on,” he said. “Look, John McCain has prominence and money and influence and because of that he thinks he can ramrod us.”

LaFaro accused the senator of engaging in the equivalent of “ethnic cleansing.” “For John McCain to have been so vindictive in his actions … It’s just amazing,” he said. “It’s been all-out war.”

Read more: Politico.com




Free elections - If only we had them in America

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe poses in front of a board showing his party's results during an election night event in Tokyo December 14, 2014. 

The United States is the only democratic nation on earth with only two political parties for voters to choose from.  That was not always the case.  American voters used to live in a multi-party Republic.  
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But those days are long gone.  The American Sheeple actually think their vote matters.  The Sheeple need to wake up, become thinking citizens again and demand election reform.

| Photo: Rue

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Japanese General Election, 2014
The new Japanese Parliament.  Many, many different political parties representing every possible faction of society have been elected.
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Meanwhile in the USA we are force fed a choice of two corrupt Washington D.C. special interest funded parties.  The American people on the left, right and middle have no real representation in our own Congress.
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We need real election reform or we are doomed to be ruled over by Oligarchs.

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