{"id":6292,"date":"2010-06-11T12:35:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6292"},"modified":"2010-06-14T11:07:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T18:07:11","slug":"summer-shields-the-leading-edge-of-the-trend-toward-phantom-stealth-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/06\/11\/summer-shields-the-leading-edge-of-the-trend-toward-phantom-stealth-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Shields: the Leading Edge of the trend toward Phantom Stealth Campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

In relation to this comment for this news article<\/a>:
\nHey Gerry Tuoti, this story should be on Frank vs Brown, not on the two people holding signs. Headline says they annoyed the public– why does the Gazette believe that? Were there complaints to the police department? Or is this more Gazette editorializing their opinion rather than reporting the facts. Your article says they refused to be photographed–with an accompanying photograph where the guy clearly isn’t avoiding the camera. Stick to the facts!!!<\/em><\/p>\n

I think it’s now open to question whether Rachel Brown is even on the ballot.\u00c2\u00a0 The answer is, apparently yes<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Having cleared that hurdle — sure, Brown versus Frank.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Really, you want to relive that clip<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let’s run through some of the odd repercussions of the Tuesday Primary elections.\u00c2\u00a0 The Media is reporting it as a “Night of the Women”, rather tediously — see Jon Stewart’s Wednesday program for some apt mocking of that meme.\u00c2\u00a0 But I will report it as a great night of Stealth Campaigns.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s with this thread in tow that I can stick in the latest antics of the Lyndon Larouche Movement as a rather severe example of a national phenomenom.<\/p>\n

Monday and into Tuesday morning, the blogosphere was rocked with speculation that Orly Taitz –\u00c2\u00a0the most prominent name in Birther Conspiracy Theorists– \u00c2\u00a0just might win the Republican nomination for Secretary of State against a certain re-election for the Demcoratic Incumbent.\u00c2\u00a0 Her opponent was a man not much campaigning who had not established any name or presence — apparently a former player for the Jacksonville Jaguars, but my wikipedia search on Monday\u00c2\u00a0pointed to a Bowl Game he played in college and to a stint in (I’m not kidding here) the XFL.\u00c2\u00a0 Money quote from the politico article.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153For professional Republicans right now, the main tactic in regards to Orly Taitz is prayer,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College and a longtime observer of California politics.
\n<\/em>It turned out well.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s hard to ascertain who counts as the Stealth Campaigner here, but Orly Taitz was a known enough quantity — her name registered well enough and out of the “Vaguely aware” category that 75 percent of the Republican party voted against her.<\/p>\n

Fate played a trick on\u00c2\u00a0the Democratic Party faithful.\u00c2\u00a0 Schaudenfruede was reveresed.\u00c2\u00a0 South Carolina threw up a surprise win for an unemployed man\u00c2\u00a0who filed the $10k filing fee with a personal check and then disappared.\u00c2\u00a0 I may be the only person in this country who will go to Bat for Alvin Greene.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, actually looking over the blogosphere, I am not — though my good company mostly consists of Republicans enjoying a moment of Schaudenfrede and a chance to throw spit-wads at Democrats — though there’s also the cynical like me in his bunch of supporters.\u00c2\u00a0 My first impulse is “Good for him”.\u00c2\u00a0 The questioning of why and how this unemployed man dumped ten thousand dollars on a pointless ballot spot is shoved aside to question — why did Carly Fiorni dump $80 Million into a biad that’ll get her such a lousy six digit pay-check?\u00c2\u00a0 In respect to the bid of the South Carolina Democratic Party’s request for him to step aside, I urge Alvin Greene to get his Rod Blagojevich on and demand just compensation.\u00c2\u00a0 At any rate, maybe he can parlay his Stealth Campaign victory into Reality Television Spot.
\nSee, Alvin Greene’s opponet — name no longer of any import — the supposed Legitimate Candidate — had about as little chance of victory as Greene.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe there is something to the Weakness of the Media in covering poltiical candidates, even down to the flakes and flukes at the bottom of the ballot.\u00c2\u00a0 And people have been wondering whether the coverage of Orly Taitz is something of over-kill: it stopped her from being on the General Election ballot, right?<\/p>\n

One more Stealth\u00c2\u00a0Campaign to note, though to a different effect\u00c2\u00a0— the winner of the Republican Primary Contest for Senator from Nevada — Sharron Angle.\u00c2\u00a0 Upon winning her nomination, her campaign website was scrubbed away and down-sized to a simple “Contribute” button.\u00c2\u00a0 And there we move forward\u00c2\u00a0— the Republicans just did the seemingly impossible and re-elected Harry Reid to another term — you know that, don’t you?<\/p>\n

But the Winner, and Still Champions.\u00c2\u00a0 A Confederacy of Dunces.\u00c2\u00a0 Just when I thought that my capacity to be astounded by the absurdity of the Larouche organization had been tapped — they manage to outdo themselves.\u00c2\u00a0 In December of 2009, Summer Shields announced his primary challenge against Nancy Pelosi.\u00c2\u00a0 This was one of a trio of Larouche Youth Members campaigning, and moving their foces into a organizing force of electoral politics — the Movement’s purpose for the year 2010.\u00c2\u00a0 They made various tea party appearances.\u00c2\u00a0 They launched with a Press Conference at the National Press Club<\/a> — “a leadership that can inspire young people, but also inspire the tired, angry frustrated Americans to get out”.\u00c2\u00a0 And from this ground, they scored a breakthrough in Texas.\u00c2\u00a0 Kesha Rogers SHOOK the Texas Democratic Party as, “The victory in the 22nd Congressional District yesterday by LaRouche Democrat Kesha Rogers <\/a>sent an unmistakable message to the White House, and its British imperial controllers: Your days are numbered.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Hm?
\n“Whenever you hear someone with a British accent<\/em> talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum they are not telling you the truth.” — Congressman Anthony Weiner<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 (But Gad, it took the org forever to jump onto that one.)<\/p>\n

So, with the Right Moment of British – bashing coming forward, Momentum, surely, was with them… right?<\/p>\n

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Mass Strike conditions evident — just see the protesters in front of a campaign appearance from Obama for Boxer and the other Democrats — it spilled over over-seas with a sign alerting to from Bueso\u00c2\u00a0in Germany –\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Erst Kesha, dann Kascha\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (First Kesha, then Kascha) — <\/em>en route to their usual .04 percent vote total.<\/p>\n

It was quite a political contest, wasn’t it?\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s the whirl-wind tour:
\nMemories… of the way we used to be… Misty Water Colored Memories…<\/p>\n

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\nOf the way we were…<\/p>\n

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\nOf the way… we… were…<\/p>\n

I think I can be forgiven for, after seeing the financial reports available online, seeing Robert Beltran’s $300, reading the Larouche Organization pump up the promise of defeating Nancy Pelosi, reading the reports on the Great Post Office Campaign, seeing the inspiration go down to Carol Smith Johnson in allowing her to wage her campaign in Indiana and garnering 8 percent of the vote, reading Howie G pounce on “Watch out for Summer Shields in California” — you can forgive me for ASSUMING that all the i’s were dotted, and the t’s were crossed, all the lower-case j’s were dotted, all the o’s were circled — the $1,740 filing fee processed or the\u00c2\u00a03,000 valid signatures gathered (shouldn’t be too difficult, right, with that Mass Strike happening and all) — you can forgive me for ASSUMING that Summer Shields was on the goddamned ballot.<\/p>\n

But you know what happens when you assume?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, usually you make as Ass out of You and Me, but in this case you just make as Ass out of the Larouchies.
\nBut here we do have this clever solution to a problem the org has with these campaigns.\u00c2\u00a0 In the past, the Larouche org ran candidates, but reportedly they stopped doing due to attention being delivered to the candidate themselves as opposed to the cult leader.\u00c2\u00a0 But we now run ashunder in a need for a fund-raiser purpose and organization tool for future recruits, in the post Larouche for President Era.\u00c2\u00a0 So why not run a Phantom Congressional Campaign — if you leave the man Summer Shields off the ballot, you will keep him from the Media Spotlight, saving the mentions in the media — allowing future campaign events on the Summer Shields Campaign website to spotlight future Cadre School shows (ie: Indoctrination Seminars).\u00c2\u00a0 Money well avoided in Spending!<\/p>\n

That is, unless you want to believe, this<\/a>:
\nI emailed someone at the Oakland LYM chapter about Summer’s ballot status. This is the responce I got,<\/em>
\nThe party hacks blocked Summer from running in the primary as a Democrat, so he’s a write in candidate. No word yet on the results.<\/em>
\nApparently they didn’t care all that much of this supposed Party Hack block job.\u00c2\u00a0 In the past, when the Democratic Party has blocked delegations won in late season low attention primary battles, the Larouche org has cried foul.\u00c2\u00a0 When the Texas Democratic Party dis-associated themselves with Kesha Rogers, they’ve cried foul.\u00c2\u00a0 Here?\u00c2\u00a0 Just a post-humous rewriting of history to record their great Primary Dance as a “Write In Campaign”.\u00c2\u00a0 And with that, Lyndon Larouche has now taken the lead over Harold Stassen for largest number of Presidential Bids, Larouche having been a Write-in Candidate for every Presidential Election since the days of Socrates!<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0…………….<\/p>\n

Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll bite.\u00c2\u00a0 Let’s see how the election results turned out for the candidates Howie G endorsed over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tom Fiegen = 9.4 percent
\nTyler Gernant = 24 percent (the winner of the primary had 39.)
\nNancy Price = NARROW VICTORY!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 (Not expected to win in November)
\nDanny Tarkanian =\u00c2\u00a023.3% (third in the Nevada contest).
\nArt Dunn, a LaRouche endorser in 2004 = 11.3 percent<\/p>\n

Also, it probably comes as a surprise to everyone listed except Dunn that the Larouche org has, on some level, claimed them.\u00c2\u00a0 Today, I see they’re also laying claim to Blanche Lincoln’s victory<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0— strange, as Obama’s support of Lincoln opened up a cleave between him and the Democratic Party rank and file.<\/p>\n

In Wikipedia Editing News, the Larouchies are demanding to know <\/a>why a supportive sentence of a former Soviet Union official keeps being cut out of the Larouche article.\u00c2\u00a0 I assume this renewed interest in this old chestnut comes from an interview that the org is currently trumpeting of an appearance in some Russian publication or other.\u00c2\u00a0 Such follows the removal of “Albert Sumlin<\/a>” from the proceedings after another chest-nut attempt in editing the article regarding Jeremiah Duggan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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