Exposed – Election Dirty Tricks

On or about May 15th two Central Committee Chairs, one from Yuba County and one from Butte County (both Logue supporters) used their group to vote for censure against Sue Horne. As you may know already, Sue Horne is Logues main oppostion and another republican candidate in this pre-primary race. The Committees did this censure in virtually the 11th hour of this race and that left almost no time for Sue to respond. This was an extremely unusual move (to censure a republican candidate) in a pre-primary race. Now we’re advised it’s against the California Republican Party rules, at least according to Shawn Steel the recent Chairman of the State Party and now a National Representative. Will they shut down a central committee for breaking the rules? Probably not, even if they could. See, central committees do pretty much whatever they want, sometimes in violation of the State rules. So if a State officers says they have right to do it because and its against the rules and the local committee said we are going to do it and we had every right because you can’t stop us, it’s possible that truth may exist on both sides and I am looking deeper into this legal point.

Then these two groups, acting in conjunction with the Logue camp, used their own self [created] censure issue and marketed it to the voters and the media as breaking news! Logue’s campaign mailers and radio ads are all filled with this garbage as if it came from the broad based support of the Republican Party in each county.

To me, looking through my eyes as a retired police detective, the censure looks pretty phony because it is so vague. All we have is an allegation that Sue Horned threw some mud at Dan Logue and so she was censured for good cause. Well, shes been under attack from day one by Logue and his cronies, but that of course was never mentioned; no censure there! ( Uh, a double standard? You betcha!)

In each county the Central Committee Chairs never called for a fair hearing where evidence could be tested. They never even asked for an explanation from Sue. She was just tried and convicted by a Kangaroo Court. Get this, in one email message Steven Thompson (Chair for Butte County) gives us a hint about his stealth tactic when he said Central Committees might not be able to endorse a candidate, but they could sure censure… (a censure has the same end effect…its like a reverse endorsement). So if the mission was actually to endorse Logue, a censure against Sue works about as well.

Do the central committees need a standard method to evaluate evidence and call for a censure? I think they do, but then again, forcing them to use it is another thing.

This is a new level of dirty politics and it is motivated by the political ambitions of many minor and a few major political people who have joined forces to form a big political machine. Past experience says this is how a particular candidate wins. The long range goal is to build a dynasty of selected persons to occupy various elected offices, from County Chair seats, Assembly Seats, Senate Seats and eventually Congressional Seat/s. Almost everybody gets something out of it and it’s a very powerful force to stop.

There was an obvious conflict of interest by these two Central Committee Chairmen, but the media missed it, but maybe this insider’s expose’ might help clue them in? We can only hope.

So, by politicians infiltrating the grass roots, i.e. local county Central Committees and CRA groups, controlling by proxy (operatives working exclusively for them), they have a great opportunity to promote their personal hidden agenda and fend off any competing ideas and candidates. This is a brilliant and successful tactic that has been used many times by many politicians, but it doesn’t make it right.

In Yuba County there are only a few members in the Central Committee. It appears now by their actions, they restarted an “in name only” committee at the behest of the Logue Campaign to do his bidding; well, lets see how long they last once the election is over. I think that will say all we need to know about them.

Placing operatives in positions of trust is smart in a sense, there is a lot of money and power infused into the club, but, it comes at a price too. Its a high price clubs and committees lose their autonomy and become pupets in an election. They become little more than a [false front] for candidates personal Political Action Committee. PACs historically do the bidding of one candidate or cause or aligned candidates and causes and this is exactly what is taking place now. Consider, four of the last five Chairmen for the Butte County Central Committee were [political operatives] either for campaigns or incumbents. This is becoming a habit because it is a proven tactic that works.

The most dangerous part now is losing control of our free, fair and open elections via manipulation by a few people representing a bigger machine. Common sense and integrity says we must be extremely careful not to allow political operatives to control important groups that are supposed to be free to promote our partisan candidates and causes in general, not just certain ones that fit some special needs.

Heres another odd coincidence, the Logue Campaign just received roughly $183,000 in special interest money to help promote this last minute advertising blitz. Sure are a lot of coincidences piling up, two central committee censures, the 11th hour attacks, the infusion of the big special money, etc..

I’m behind Sue because I think she is going to make a big difference to help us cleaning up this stuff.

Any questions or comments, or if you want to help me stop the dirty tricks write me at ..

SAVEOURELECTIONS@GMAIL.COM

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