Posted on 07/19/2010 4:56:46 PM PDT by Allthegoodusernamesaregone
Bill, Danielle, and Chip, at about 1210 pm today I received a call from Ms Chris Landshut, (954)739-5007, Executive Director of the South Florida Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. After reintroducing herself to me she was uncomfortable telling me of a situation that has arisen reference the nomination of Angela and myself as a South Florida Finest Couple.
She informed me that she has received complaints from certain individuals who have threatened to withdraw their support to the Cystic Fibrosis gala event if Angela and I are honored. She humbly asked if I would agree to step down and allow the event to proceed and not disrupt the support to the foundation. These individuals have called and complained to the National Foundation decrying "politicizing" of the event.
In accepting the nomination, Angela and I consented to raise $10K for the Cystic Fibrosis foundation, our opportunity to give back to our community. However, not wanting to cause the foundation to lose what I was told could be up to $200K I consented to Ms Landshut that Angela and I would step down and not participate in the event.
Bill, you are the Chairman of this gala event and therefore I would like a formal letter of apology, not to me, but rather to my wife Dr Angela Graham-West explaining this situation. I do not care how people attack me but my wife is another matter.
I know that this situation revolves around my congressional candidacy but this event has honored political figures before. I felt that our service to this Nation and local commnity warranted our nomination.
It has come to my attention that the McCloskey and Levy families are the donors who have threatened to withdraw support due to prodding from the wife of Congressman Ron Klein. I find this reprehensible, disgusting, despicable, and petulant....but indicative of the hideous side of South Florida politics which I condemn. There is proof of this, to include an email trail, and I would appreciate your honesty when this becomes a topic of inquiry.
I must now contact all those friends whom I had asked to assist us in raising the requisite funds and inform them of this issue. I pray you are prepared.
I hold no angst against you as the Chairman of the event, Ms Landshut, or the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. However, I am highly upset with those who would blackmail the CF Foundation in order to play politics. Steadfast and Loyal, LTC(R) Allen B West
Slam them once then move on. All you are accomplishing is hijacking threads...........and you've done a pretty damn good job here. I suspect that's your intent anyway.......
What places might those be?
Is this a serious post?
Some folks are delusional. It's how Obama got elected.
"Gelber is a Democrat state legislator running for state attorney general."
Before we all go nuclear......there is a possibility that they dropped current candidates for public office from their list. It would be interesting to see what they did in the past.
“”Anyone who questions the validity of stuff posted on Facebook belongs in a rubber room?
Maybe in your world. Enjoy the cheesy-poofs. “”
questioning is one thing.....ridiculing is another.....
You could call your congressman and ask him to support West’s candidacy.
Unless your congressman is a liberal, which I realize isn’t your fault if that’s the case.
Liberals despise West because liberals are generally dishonest to themselves about the right thing to do regarding issues like race, national defense, the economy and the environment.
When it comes to candidates like Allen West, liberal activists will only resort to cowardly tactics—as seen in the facebook posting here. From top to bottom, liberal activists are little sissies. They can’t come out in the open and act like men. I don’t care if they have Bill Ayers or Timothy McVeigh tendencies, or jihadist motives—those are the tendencies and motives of cowards and sissies.
All “health” charities are leftist and fraudulent.
They exist to provide prestiege, and high paying jobs to liberal charletans.
This is shocking. There is one charity to which I will not contribute since they use it sort of as a front for political action.
If I didn’t know better, I’d suggest another idea for your brave and heroic struggle against the blogpimps.
I’d say get in touch with Cass Sunstein, or individuals associated with groups like the Center for American Progress or another group run by someone like George Soros. You might tap into some extra cash. These cowards would love to decrease the number of conservative blogs that get posted on conservative websites.
But you should keep in mind that Sunstein, Soros and organizations like CAP are in direct opposition to what FreeRepublic stands for. And they are fools, intellectually speaking. So in order to do this, you would have to sell your soul as well as your mind. You would have to choose to become an idiot.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2428006/posts
There are blogs and there are blogs.
There are many real blogs like Iowahawk, NewsBusters, The People’s Cube, Hot Air, Big Hollywood, Vodkapundit, and Dennis the Peasant. They offer insight and entertainment.
Then there are the “Look at me! I have a blog!” type blogs that offer nothing but links to videos and other articles. These blogs are of little value here. Why not just directly link the said articles and videos on threads and bypass those “blogs” altogether?
I have an idea. Let’s have the free market decide which blogs are worthy, not the anti “blogpimp” nags on FR.
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