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Who is Behind the High-Tech Lynching of Herman Cain?

by 1389AD ( 108 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, The Political Right at November 6th, 2011 - 3:00 pm

Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Rick Perry

It is not about the women

The female(s) who are allegedly leaking this story are not acting on their own. Even though they have been paid in some way, they are not prostitutes in the most literal sense. Yes, demanding money in return for consensual sex is prostitution, and yes, that activity is legal or decriminalized in some jurisdictions. But demanding money after LYING about sexual acts is something entirely different: it is extortion. Extortion has also been effectively decriminalized in the US, provided that the perp is savvy enough to use our corrupt legal and regulatory system as a tool to extract money from whomever has the deepest pockets.

It is all about the “establishment Republicans”

There is no dirty trick that these RINOs won’t pull, and no lie that they won’t tell, in their quest to foist a “moderate” (actually leftist) Republican on an unwilling electorate.

Cast of Characters in the Lynching of Herman Cain

By Donna Garner

11.3.11

Chris Wilson of Wilson Research Strategies has said publicly that while he was working for Herman Cain at the National Restaurant Association (NRA) in the late 1990’s that he personally saw Cain sexually harass a woman at a restaurant in Virginia although Wilson has not said exactly what he believes constituted his claim of “harassment.”

WHO IS CHRIS WILSON?

Chris Wilson was the Executive Director of the Republican Party of Texas under then-governor George W. Bush. Chris Wilson worked very closely with Karl Rove. Rove was known to us in Texas as the “master of dirty political tricks. ” I suspect that Rove taught Chris Wilson the art of deception.

KARL ROVE

Karl Rove has been accused of being the source behind countless dirty tricks, whisper campaigns, smear tactics, and character assassinations.

I have dealt personally with Karl Rove. I well remember in 1997 when we classroom teachers in Texas had written our own state curriculum standards document (Texas Alternative Document) and were gaining wide support in the national press because no classroom teachers (before or since) had ever written their own standards document. We classroom teachers did not believe the standards being steamrolled by the Texas Education Agency and the Governor’s office were good for Texas students.

In the spring of 1997, Karl Rove was brought in by Gov. George W. Bush’s staff to quiet down the controversy because Bush was on his way to the White House and was being touted as the “education President.” Karl Rove believed that Bush could not afford any bad publicity, and evidently Rove’s task was “to make it go away.”

Suddenly those State Board of Education (SBOE) members who had supported our TAD document began getting phone calls from their largest campaign contributors threatening to withdraw their support unless they backed the Governor’s document.

One of our main SBOE supporters who made his living as a healthcare provider suddenly had his office visited by both state and federal auditing agencies simultaneously. They managed to tie up his total attention for weeks during the exact time that the SBOE members needed to be focusing their attention on the all-consuming work of adopting new curriculum standards for the state of Texas. The auditors found nothing illegal.

At one particular SBOE meeting, several of the SBOE members were told by the hotel management that their room assignments had suddenly been changed. The next day the information they had exchanged in a highly confidential phone call was made known publicly and neither of them had been the ones to leak it.

Back to the Herman Cain “lynching” —

MIKE TOOMEY

Chris Wilson was hired by Mike Toomey to do Gov. Rick Perry’s polling. Mike Toomey was Gov. Perry’s chief of staff who was behind the HPV Merck/Gardasil scandal. Mike Toomey turned out to be a lobbyist for Merck.

CHRIS WILSON TIED TO TONY FABRIZIO

In 1995 Chris Wilson left the Republican Party of Texas (and Karl Rove) and went to work for pollster Tony Fabrizio.

NEW CAMPAIGN TEAM FOR RICK PERRY

Because Gov. Perry’s Presidential campaign was losing steam, several weeks ago (10.24.11) his team decided to hire Curt Anderson, Tony Fabrizio, et al. “Coincidentally,” it appears that Politico began working on its 10.30.11 sexual harassment hit piece against Herman Cain at about that very same time.

WHO IS CURT ANDERSON?

Who is Curt Anderson? Herman Cain told Forbes that he recalled personally telling Curt Anderson in 2003 about the sexual harassment charges at the NRA but that they were baseless. Cain felt Curt Anderson as a pollster for the NRA needed to know about the allegations.

HALEY BARBOUR

Another big coincidence? Curt Anderson was the political director at the Republican National Committee under Haley Barbour. Haley Barbour was a member of the ad team for Mitt Romney’s campaign in 2007/2008.

On 11.2.11 two days after the Politico story broke on 10.30.11, Haley Barbour went on nationwide TV and began to pressure Cain to get the NRA to release its confidentiality agreement, thus giving the “woman” a chance to grab the national microphone.

MY SUMMATION

I am not the brightest bulb in the lamp, but I can connect the dots. So can most thinking Americans.

The Republican candidates are in a heated campaign leading up to the primaries. Out of nowhere has stepped Herman Cain as the frontrunner. He is not an “establishment” sort of guy.

Chris Wilson, the “witness” (Karl Rove’s understudy, recommended to Rick Perry by unscrupulous Mike Toomey) is now working with Curt Anderson (newly hired by Perry) and Tony Fabrizio (newly hired by Perry). Fabrizio is connected to Haley Barbour (worked on Mitt Romney’s campaign in 2007/2008). Barbour is the one who is trying to pressure the Cain campaign to release the “woman accuser” so that the Politico story will grow legs and eventually “lynch” Herman Cain.

COMMENTS FROM ATTORNEYS

Yesterday an attorney friend who has broad experience in such cases told me that if these “women” actually had grounds for sexual harassment charges, they would have gone after Herman Cain for millions of dollars; however, but they did not.

Another good friend sent the following to me, and I believe this piece also should help those of us who are trying to look at this situation logically:

11.2.11

Donna —

A few years ago I met an attorney who specialized in sexual harassment cases and had represented several women who had filed sexual harassment charges against a male co-employee (often a supervisor). We talked for quite a while about that and I learned a couple of interesting things:

1. Pre-Clarence Thomas, [before the Anita Hill “lynching” of Clarence Thomas in 1991] the attorney felt that the sexual harassment laws made sense and she gladly represented a number of female clients.

Post-Clarence Thomas, she refused to represent most women that came to her because the charges were what she called “frivolous and ridiculous” — that “hostile environment” could represent something as benign as an argument and/or several other nonsexual behaviors.

2. I asked her if she ever represented any men pre- or post-Clarence Thomas. She said no — that men were generally laughed out of the courtroom regardless of the validity of the charges.

WHO DID IT?

To my way of thinking either the Perry campaign, the Romney campaign, or both may be behind this “lynching” of Herman Cain.

I will also add that it is possible neither Rick Perry nor Mitt Romney may know what dirty tricks (if any) their campaigners may be doing once hired and working behind closed doors in various parts of the country. Therefore, Perry/Romney are not lying when they say they know nothing about this story. However, some of the campaigners working for them may know quite a bit about it.

Resource for parts of my article:

11.2.11 “Former Texas GOP operative says he knows about Cain harassment but wasn’t source for story” by Wayne Slater, Dallas Morning News: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/perry-watch/headlines/20111102-former-texas-gop-operative-says-he-knows-about-cain-harassment-but-wasnt-source-for-story.ece

Donna Garner
Wgarner1@hot.rr.com

 

Oh, and by the way, “establishment Republicans” hate being called what they are.

Rush Limbaugh: Establishment Republicans Want to Redefine the Term “Conservative”

September 21, 2011

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Folks, this is a little Inside Baseball, but it’s important because he who controls the language ends up winning the debate, and it might seem like a small thing, but I have learned and I have been given to understand that the “establishment Republicans” hate the term. They don’t like being called “establishment Republicans,” and they are trying to change the term to “establishment conservatives” and in the process co-opt the definition of “conservative” and conservatism. It’s not something that you’ll notice if you watch cable news or even read. You have to be able to see the stitches on the fastball, you have to be able to read between the lines, and you have to know some stuff going on behind the scenes (and, of course, I am in a position to know these kinds of things).

So don’t doubt me on this. The establishment Republicans are the establishment Republicans. The Republican leadership is the Republican establishment, meaning the elites. They hate it and they are in the process of trying to redefine who conservatives are and what it is — and if they succeed, the conservatism that you and I hold dear will no longer be the definition of conservatism. If they succeed, the current thinking of the Republican establishment will be what is called modern day conservatism. Don’t doubt me on this. It sounds like a small thing, but in a daily ebb and flow you’ll not even see any news about this, but it’s in important because it’s crucial who controls the language, who controls the way words are defined.

You and I know that the establishment Republicans don’t like conservatives. They didn’t like Reagan. They were embarrassed of Reagan. They were embarrassed of us. They didn’t like the Moral Majority, they didn’t like the Christian right, they don’t like the pro-lifers. They don’t like the social conservatives at all. They’re embarrassed by us, in many ways, with their other buddies, the establishment Democrats — which combined gives us the Washington establishment, and they very much prefer to be members of that club than ours. But they know that it doesn’t help them to be called “establishment Republicans.” So they’re trying to take the term “conservative” and co-opt it and define it as they behave, write, speak, and even vote on matters of politics.

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Coming to a City Near You

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 89 Comments › )
Filed under Crime, Open thread, Progressives, Regulation, Socialism at August 19th, 2010 - 7:00 pm

By now, most of you have heard about the bizarre racketeering in the City of Bell California, one of the poorest cities in California with a per capita average annual income of less than $40,000. Recently it was discovered that the city council, fire chief and others were paying themselves six figures, up to a jaw dropping $1.5 million for the city manager Robert Rizzo, paid for with property taxes and extortion using a towing company with connections to the police department. Rizzo, btw, lives in Huntington Beach.

Now, let’s talk about subterranean extortion. From the Huntington Beach City News:

HUNTINGTON BEACH...The Huntington Beach City Council on Monday night voted to charge out-of-town residents a fee that could be has high as $2,000 to $3,000 if they have an emergency response service in Surf City. The fee would be used to recover charges for time and equipment that respond to the scene (fire trucks, police patrol vehicles, helicopter, etc.) of a accident.This fee would include vehicle accidents and fires, pipe line and power line damages. This fee would not apply to Huntington Beach residents as their taxes go toward paying for this service.

Four Orange County cities already have fees to charge non-residents, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, Garden Grove and Santa Ana. Santa Ana charges a fee for both residents and non-residents alike. The extra billed fees would be passed on to the person’s insurance company. This would most likely increase the premium of everyone’s insurance policy as more cities decide to charge fees for emergency response services. Those who were without insurance, the bill would go directly to the driver and most likely not be paid.

Huntington Beach expects that these fees would bring in approximately $100,000 a year to go for equipment repair and replacement and other city needs.

Typical emergency response service fees

Car accidents with fluids (oil, gasoline, diesel) : $595
Car fire: $750
Extrication: $2,000
Pipeline or power line basic response: $405
Pipeline or power line intermediate response: $1,120
Fire Chief response: $210 an hour
Miscellaneous equipment charges: $405-$505 an hour

Huntington Beach, CA, has been operating in the red for years, and this economy hasn’t helped. Up and down Beach Boulevard and throughout the city, car dealerships, professional buildings and other commercial property are either boarded up or mostly empty. Recently, H.B. has been strong arming one of the last small beach communities to annex them, even though most of the residents of Seal Beach oppose being told what to do by the socialists of Surf City.

So where to get the money? Extort it from insurance companies, which means you.

Lookee here. Say you have a fender bender with an uninsured motorist within the city boundary. Say your vehicle skidded to a stop near a power pole, the radiator’s leaking, but no one’s trapped inside a vehicle, no injuries. Say the other vehicle is disabled and blocking traffic.

While you and Mr. or  Ms. Uninsured are discussing ways to settle,

The Fire Department is dispatched to verify the antifreeze is not flammable;
The Police Department is dispatched to make sure you’re not duking it out and to direct traffic until the city-sanctioned towing company arrives;
Helicopter surveillance (miscellaneous);
City Public Works inspectors are sent to verify that the power pole is still standing.

Assuming that the city folks with hourly rates keep their visits to 60 minutes, and not 60 minutes + 1, (that’ll never happen, right?) you’re gonna be nailed with a minimum of $2,020 up front, not counting the rate increase on your insurance for merely driving through the city. Plus, unless you pay for collision insurance,  you’ll have to pay repair your car yourself because Huntington Beach is an undeclared “Sanctuary City” with a lot of uninsured drivers.

As for Huntington Beach spokesholes claiming they’re only going to get $100,000 per year, it’s bogus. Ignoring fatalites, extrications, etc., in 2008, there were a total of 1,755 accidents reported. Multiply that by A MINIMUM of $2,020 per accident  produces a minimum value of OVER THREE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR FOR MAINTENANCE.

Oh yeah. They said it’s for maintenance and [ahem],  “other city needs.” Pheeeeew.