A big election win in Oregon (Saturbray)

www.brayincandy.com ^ | 3/15/14 | bray

[bray]

And the chief captain answered, with a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, but I was free born. Acts 22:28

It appears the stranglehold of the Marxists may be loosening from America. Not only was the national election in Florida for David Jolly a major victory, but here in deep blue Oregon we had a special election on Light Rail that Conservatives won. Not only was it a defeat for the crown jewel of liberalism, but we won the election against the Oregon Democrat machine which never loses. This election was in a town that runs pretty much the same mix as the state, but we ran it by focusing on Getting Out The Vote and very little else.

We have spent three years developing our campaign system and specifically using the petition process to go directly to the voters and bypassing the politicians. This particular petition and ballot stated that before Tigard, OR spends any money on a major mass transportation project like Light Rail or Dedicated Buses the people would have to approve it with a vote. This was simply a vote to require a vote of the people before the central designers brought big boondoggle projects to the town and it passed by 200 votes out of 9000 cast.

This may not seem like a large victory, but the opposition had the entire Dem machine behind the defeat of this including Obama’s Organizing America network. The entire city council as well as the Mayor, who we got elected, were united and used the media to scare the citizens into voting this down. They made false accusations this was a Koch brothers, Tea Party group of outsiders to the point of using the old Wolf in Sheep’s clothing cliché. We had no media, were outspent around 4 or 5 to 1 and relied on signs, a couple of mailers and knocking targeted doors and won.

This cannot be minimized as it shows the people are no longer voting automatically the way the liberal establishment wants them to vote. There is no more ingrained liberal establishment in Oregon where people worship the earth and believe in Global Warming making the Light Rail a symbol of that belief and voting against it makes you guilty. You cannot be a good person in Oregon unless you are against the car and for supposedly clean transportation like trains. This was the place where environmentalism and ecotopia began, so most Oregonians have been trained to believe in worshipping the earth. This was a huge hurdle to overcome and took three years to accomplish the turning of that religious belief.

This town has not voted Repub for around twenty years and has been a safe seat for Dems. To win an election on an economic and societal conservative argument was groundbreaking. The Light Rail regional plan has been designed for over twenty years and fifty million dollars to be the most aggressive rail based metropolitan transportation system in the country. When Obama was elected, Portland was described as the model for the rest of the country and we have put a major roadblock in that plan. There is no way to go around this town and it blocks perhaps the most important spoke to the entire plan.

This election does have national implications for two reasons. One it shows that people are not going to vote the Party line because the politicians tell them so. It also showed that the Dems could not get their people out like they expected and may be starting to feel Marxist fatigue. With 25% real unemployment this state is a disaster for Obamacare showcased through the Cover Oregon fiasco designed by the Governor and Dems who were all in building the only website worse than Obama’s. These hardcore socialists spent $60 million on a website that could not allow one person to sign up. Although we did not talk to many Dems, you could tell there was not the usual arrogance you normally find from the ones you encountered in their homes.

The other lesson was to stick to GOTV and do everything you do to make sure to maximize our voters through persuasion and education. We have Fraud by Mail here which means the ballots are mailed a month early and when we began canvassing. We hit all of our Republican doors from the time the ballots dropped, but the same basic effort can and is being repeated throughout the country. The key to our system is to only hit houses that are likely to vote your way and get them to vote. There is no point going to doors you have little or no chance of getting a vote and are wasting time. This is critical for Repubs since there are far fewer Repub volunteers so you have to make the most of the limited time you have. To spend that time with a person who is a 1 in 10 chance of voting your way vs one who is a 1 in 2, you go where you have the best chance.

In addition to not wasting time you are not setting yourself up for longer arguments and more frustration. There is nothing worse than arguing with a Marxist since the first place they will always go is to name-calling. This not only wastes time, but lowers morale as people have to deal with some very angry, argumentative low IQ voters. This turns a difficult chore into pure torture and will turn your limited volunteers into fewer volunteers. Keep it fun and rewarding because the vote is won at the door as we proved in a blue P-Town suburb.

This election and the one on the complete opposite corner of the country proved a couple of things. There is a distrust of the liberal establishment and there is a way Conservatives can fight the liberal voter machine. Even though the inner city vote printing presses exist, we have little reason to complain until we are getting our voters out. We were able to get our voters out in a special election and were able to beat them against the entire machine using all of its tricks. They used every scare tactic in their very thin book and still came up short. We did not equivocate and when they would make certain words off limits we used them specifically in our literature and defended them. This not only worked, but the voters were excited to vote and appreciated their voices being heard and not muted. In the end, if you focus on getting out the vote none of the Democrat tricks work. There is a very good chance the worm is turning and there is a quiet rage across this country from Oregon to Florida.

Pray America wakes up

[fieldmarshaldj]

You’ve confirmed you’ve been here that whole period, yet you still apparently don’t “get it.” What I see here, from you, and a few others, is complete contentment with the party establishment running frauds and liars (and incompetent ones at that). You then follow it up by attacking those who refuse to support said frauds and liars in a general election. Where are your Conservative principles, sir ? Or have you forgotten what website you are on ?

[jonrick46]

Here in Seattle, we have the Alaskan Way Viaduct, shown with traffic driving along the incredible views of the city of Seattle, Elliott Bay, the Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. That is being torn down and replaced with a tunnel, shown in the below drawing. If you look closely at the Viaduct, it has three lanes of traffic as opposed to the tunnel's two lanes each way. The new freeway will be inside a 57.5-foot (17.5 m) diameter tunnel. With problems with the Big Bertha boring machine, this project is expected to exceed its estimated cost of $4.25 billion.

Presently, Big Bertha has a seal problem for its main bearing. They will have to dig a shaft down to the front of the machine, cut out enough area to get to it's main bearing seals, Use a crane to lift and detach its 630-ton cutter head, and see if they can find the problem and fix it. The problem may go back to the time Big Bertha was first tested in Japan by its manufacturer. During its first test, parts of the machine weren’t moving properly and caused “some metal-on-metal contact and basically damaged the seal assembly for the main bearing. This problem was supposed to be fixed. However, that may not be true after inspection of the seal assembly.

Big Bertha has suffered a previous delay when it suffered damage hitting a large pipe in December. Such delays are costing money and lawsuits are beginning to develop.

My question has always been, why didn't they fix what needed to be fixed on the existing Viaduct? It would have been cheaper with more lanes and an incredible view.

The answer, sorry to say, is that the highway construction unions have a hold on our DemonRAT politicians by the short hairs. Any expensive construction projects are Santa Clause money under the tree and into the union campaign war chest to elect more DemonRATs.

[devolve]

Confiscation of Retirement Accounts

So, what happens if you’re not willing to invest in Obama’s MyRa? How does the government get the funding it needs to continue financing and growing the debt? The answer: FORCE you to make your retirement funds accessible to the government.

If you do some research on US Bill “HB5337,” you will find the plan to nationalize retirement wealth. On May 6, 2012 Lauren Schmitz, a research analyst at the Bernard L Schwartz Center for Economic Analyst (SCEPA), introduced HB5337. This 401(k)/IRA de-privatization is the brainchild of Teresa Ghilarducci, whom through funding from the White House and the Ford & Rockefeller Foundations engineered a new “Regulatory & Tax Incentive.” The purpose is to force Americans to convert their Retirement Accounts into Government Managed accounts.

The government will nationalize retirement accounts like IRAs, 401Ks, pensions, 403Bs, etc. so that you will be forced to use a portion of your retirement wealth to purchase U.S. government debt – debt that will ultimately default, as it is not possible to sustain our astronomical debt nor the deficits that create it.

This plan to nationalize private 401K and IRA retirement accounts is being deceptively publicized as the government protecting the public against business failings or state bankruptcies. But the reality is, your cash, your retirement funds, your bank deposits and your investments are at huge risk of being confiscated by the government through some contrived reason or another.

[bray]

It only makes sense to Marxists to take a freeway from 3 lanes and lower it to 2. They want you out of your car and into their rail boondoggles.

[Pajamajan]

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[skinkinthegrass]

thanks, for the post, education/persevering is the key.

[Republican Wildcat]

Nonresponsive - no surprise.

Your comments make no sense and attitude helps no one.

[Republican Wildcat]

Yes - the goal is to force people not to be able to drive, proving their methods are not exactly comfortable or preferable to the people.

[Republican Wildcat]

Too bad...she came across as pretty credible in the video (a credit to the production company, though).

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[GeronL]

What I said is that the message does matter, why go out and vote for pale imitations of the democrats?

[Clinging Bitterly]

From the distance of New Mexico I see a lot of her stuff on Facebook and yes, the impression is she is squishy.

Too bad, it would be nice to see Merkley go and here we have another big gov leftist authoritarian (who would love nothing more than to have me mention his name) who deserves to be shown the door. But alas, our respective urban centers will probably re-elect them.

So, my money goes to the more likely turnovers in red states, going big for 51 with a little side bet on 61. (I got their AstroTurf right here).

Now, I have lost track - is Kitz up this year? Who is in the game? We at least have incumbency with Martinez but IMO her record hasn't been terribly impressive.