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“Then why is Simcox running? He should be ready to open the books to anyone who wants to see them, since the group depends on public donations for funding.

I for one will not be giving them one, thin dime until he opens the books for independent audit.”

Your situation is different; as a donor, you have the right to ask questions about how your money has been spent, but you still don’t have the right to examine corporate documents. If you don’t want to give, don’t.

As for the rebellious State Directors, they can start their own organization... I bet they will have the same thing happen to them a year from now.

Can I post to just all of you, and explain a bit more? I live in Congressional District 8 in Arizona. Simcox and his involvement in Politics in the 2006 election when our Republican Congressman Jim Kolbe retired; did a bit more damage than just his possible mishandling of funds of the Minuteman Organization. Nearly EVERY political candidate, that had Chris Simcox’s endorsement LOST. ALL the candidates that lost were Republicans, and some of them were worthy candidates, but in Congressional District 8 the Constituents (who USUALLY vote a straight Republican ticket) were persuaded to cross party lines or abstain (as I did) from voting for the Candidates that were endorsed by Simcox, because few of the sane Republican citizens in this Congressional District want anything to do with that which Chris Simcox has been involved with or endorses. Starting with Don Goldwater who lost the primary to Munsil, who was accepted until his involvement with Simcox and The Minutemen was announced, Bill Montgomery who ran for Attorney General also made the error of claiming that he had been involved with the Minutemen (I really liked Montgomery, and I voted for him) but others saw Simcox and voted for the incumbent Democrat, Terry Goddard. We are talking about Registered Republicans who have not crossed party lines for YEARS who were suddenly searching for an Independent, a Libertarian or abstaining from voting at all.

Now let’s talk about the Congressional seat in District 8, vacated by Jim Kolbe,R after 11 terms in office. Because Chris Simcox gave so much of his and the Minuteman’s support to the Republican Randy Graf, Arizona filled that Congressional seat with a LIBERAL DEMOCRAT WOMAN, Gabrielle Giffords.

So the next time you have to listen to Nancy Pelosi and you grind your teeth, remember that Simcox holds at least partial responsibility for the Democrats’ gain of at least one seat in Congress. If he had stayed out of Politics in AZ’s election we may have had different results in the election, Kyl was only briefly mentioned in one of the AZ Minuteman’s TV spots, and he got less votes in this past election because the Republicans in Cochise County did not want to support any candidate that had anything to do with The Minutemen or Simcox. Can I prove what I am saying? Well I do know Republicans who claimed that they crossed Party lines so as not to support Simcox in any way.

What many of us have known for certain for a long time is that Simcox is an opportunist.

All of this is based on my observations, what other Cochise County Republicans have told me and of course my own opinions.

We have an Arizona Corporation Commission, if and when Simcox does open the “books”, I think you will find some very “creative bookkeeping” and you may also find that many of these dealings have been done in the name of someone other than Simcox himself. Many of us have branded him “foolish” but we also are aware that he is not a “fool” and he is going to try to avoid another criminal conviction in the State of Arizona.

For those who gave with good intentions, we are sincerely sorry that you may not like what you see when a “full account” is finally given.