Flores Receives Kiss Of Death Endorsement
Posted By: Kristofer Cowles on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 8:03 PM
Write-Ins will remember that I mentioned that receiving the endorsement of the Bryan-College Station Eagle is the kiss of death because The Eagle is not conservative in any sense of the word. With its avid support of Planned Parenthood and its fawning over Chet Edwards, you can count on it not being reliable in terms of representing the community it portends to serve.
You’ll also remember that Chuck Wilson received the endorsement of The Eagle, which I commented upon extensively, in his bid for the Texas District 17 race for Congress.
Chuck Wilson did not make the cut for the runoff, losing the primary and coming in fourth out of five contenders, with only 15.15% of the vote, or 9,828 of the nearly 65,000 cast.
Wilson only managed to come in third in his own McLennan County.
Wilson lost, and has now endorsed Bill Flores.
What does this tell us?
Flores is a RINO, at best, notwithstanding his vote for Hillary Clinton in 2008. He has the support of the chief RINO in McLennan County, which is a veritable den of RINOs in the Party structure there, and this chief RINO received the endorsement of a major liberal paper in the district.
Look further. Congressional Quarterly says the following about Flores:
The fight is between businessman Bill Flores, who appears to be the favorite of conservative groups and most GOP officials, and Curnock, another businessman who was the 2008 nominee.
So he has the support of most GOP officials. Raise your hand if you think the GOP is representing Conservative Values in America? Why would we have Tea Parties if they were? Need I remind you about what the liberal leadership of the Republican Club in Brazos County said in September?
The only true conservative I know in Party leadership is Brazos County Republican Party Chair Paul Rieger…and he hasn’t intimated to me a single hint of who he supports. He calls both runoff contenders good men, which I believe they are, as well. But he is going to leave it up to the individual voter to make an informed decision and, while I disagree with that approach if he has information that reveals one candidate is a RINO, I still think that if the information is there the voter should be able to find it.
Congressional Quarterly has also published an article about the endorsement.
But it’s not what they say. It’s what they don’t say.
You’ll not find an announcement about Timothy Delasandro’s endorsement of Rob Curnock that was released to the press last week. It gets an off-hand mention in the Wilson For Flores article, and that’s all.
You’ll not find any mention of Flores’ voting for Hillary Clinton in 2008; his never voting in the District; his being a top recruit of the National Party; or his never supporting District 17 candidates; his letting go of his Campaign Manager Tucker Anderson; or being a spokesperson for Kay Bailey Hutchison during her recent gubernatorial campaign – and how does he reconcile his supposed pro-life stance with THAT affiliation with a well-known pro-abortion advocate…all of which, and more, you have heard here and seen referenced here with indisputable facts of record.
Follow the bouncing ball, here.
Flores’ Campaign Manager is Matt Mackowiak, who has worked for the RNC and Kay Bailey Hutchison in Washington, D.C. He happens to run a very popular blog in D.C, which caters to the PR and Spokespersoning professional in that city. People known as flacks.
Chances are pretty good Mackowiak knows Greg Giroux, who writes for Congressional Quarterly on such things as the District 17 race. As a matter of fact, every post on Congressional Quarterly that mentions Delasandro has been written by Giroux. As have the posts concerning Rob Curnock, Bill Flores, David McIntyre and Chuck Wilson.
Do your homework here. Look at these posts. They all give positive vibes for Flores. And ask yourself what other races Giroux and his editorial team are concerned about so much that they consider someone’s endorsements newsworthy in Washington, D.C.
Journalism gone amuck, or just someone picking favorites? Or could it just be doing a favor for a friend?
I dunno. Just seems awfully weird to me.
You have GOT to be an informed, educated voter, and sift through this stuff.
If you aren’t, Chet Edwards will remain in the House. His name may just be Bill Flores.
You have to wonder why Bill Flores won’t talk to me, a constituent, but will make sure the Party and the media writers get his press releases. You have to wonder why his Campaign Manager told me they would put me on the Press Release list, but I haven’t received anything.
If you wonder, then you have reasonable doubt. Don’t vote for someone you have reasonable doubt about.
And you should have a LOT of reasonable doubt about Bill Flores, especially after he has been endorsed by Chuck Wilson.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:08 AM
I dropped by your site and read several entries. I also clicked on About the American Writer. I would like to comment in response to your statement that “the free-market and capitalism work for anything you want to do.” Actually, this statement may not apply in all cases. For instance, drug development for pediatric cancer does not seem to work when driven by market forces because the population of children with cancer is too small for the profit incentive for drug companies to invest in. Children’s cancer is not typically the same as cancers in adults and in many (perhaps most) cases does not benefit from the trickle down of investments in adult drug development.
March 10th, 2010 at 11:33 AM
Hi, Vickie,
Thanks for dropping by. As someone who has had diabetes for 27 years, I understand your perspective. The web is pretty complicated in unweaving what affects what in these situations, and I would defer to Government still staying out of the way and not forcing a redirection or taking of monies from one group of people to give to another. And I would advocate less regulation from the government on the drug manufacturing market. Frankly, nothing creates a need for quality or opens a market as much as when one or two people die because of a drug company being lacks with its quality control.
When barriers to production such as regulation are removed, then the cream rises to the top. Once the big diseases are managed and/or cured, drug companies will look for other markets from which to make their profits and employ people, and the pediatric cancer medicine industry would flourish.
Unfortunately, I don’t think that opportunity will ever present itself. We know government intervention into the free market system doesn’t work, but nobody in the government is willing to take government out of the equation to see if the other theories work – even when there has been practical and real results in limited areas.
Thanks again!
Kristofer