Furthermore, Ben Streusand also paid for a Dallas-area State Legislator to mail an endorsement letter into our district without disclosing to voters that: (1) this Legislator is from Dallas, not District 10, as the letter's address implies, and (2) this Legislator is on Streusand's campaign payroll as a political consultant.
Ben Streusand simultaneously tells us that McCaul is part of the "Republican Establishment" yet, that McCaul is aligned with Bill Clinton and Janet Reno. This is dishonest, deceptive, and duplicitous constituent communication. Bright red alert.
When I hired Michael McCaul, he had been working at the Justice Department for a decade under U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, who was appointed by President Bush 41. Michael had distinguished himself during his work at the Justice Department, handling high profile cases, including the Clinton campaign finance scandal where he investigated and uncovered Communist China's attempts to corrupt American politics. I knew Michael was unique and dedicated to law enforcement and justice.
As soon as Michael came on board as Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice, I saw immediately that he was a tough, smart, and capable conservative leader. I've seen Michael's work as a "tough-as-nails" prosecutor, leading the charge in Texas on the War on Terror. His knowledge of border security, cyber-crime, and other critical issues makes him a great choice for Congress.
While serving as my Deputy Attorney General, McCaul assisted on the Executive Committee of the State Infrastructure Protection Advisory Committee (SIPAC) to make recommendations to better protect critical infrastructures following the September 11 attacks. McCaul worked closely with the Attorney General, Admiral Bobby Inman - former Director of the National Security Agency - and other Committee members to collaborate with local, state, and federal government officials, as well as private-sector experts to develop a comprehensive strategy to protect critical infrastructures. After the recent FBI warning to petrochemical facilities in Texas, it is clear the people of the 10th District need a Congressman with a keen understanding of homeland security.
Together, Michael and I were the architects of Texas Exile, a gun violence reduction initiative. This program, endorsed by the NRA, takes guns out of the hands of felons and drug dealers, making our streets a safer place. The initiative involved the cooperation of the U.S. Attorneys and District Attorneys across the state. Now, Texas leads the nation in federal firearm prosecutions.
But more importantly, this program has saved lives. I asked Michael to testify before the United States Congress in favor of making Exile a nationwide program, and today this program is the number two priority of the Bush Justice Department just after fighting terrorism.
Michael also helped initiate a statewide program, the Internet Bureau, to prosecute online child predators and pedophiles. He testified before the United States Congress on this program which led to the passage of the Child Obscenity and Pornography Prevention Act. It has been an unqualified success story and is a centerpiece in Attorney General Greg Abbott's administration, which is why the child pornographers in Texas no longer have a safe haven on the Internet.
Michael's an innovator, and I know Michael is someone I will be able to work with in the House for security, tax relief, and transportation, and to win the war on Terror.
If anybody sees Corbin tell him I'm still waiting to see any documentation of this alleged HCRP screening, what it entailed, what it produced, what it published, what it got approved by the executive committee, who it was sanctioned by, who conducted it, who composed its membership, and where he got his information on Streusand's reaction to it. I ask him that as a former HCRP precinct chair myself who was actively involved in the HCRP for over five years and who witnessed and/or participated in HCRP candidate relations activities during that same period for over 100 different seekers of public office, not a single one of which resembled in format what he seems to be suggesting that Streusand skipped out on.
Based on what has been said of this matter to date it sounds as if Streusand refused to attend some sort of panel-style platform/ideology/republican purity screening seminar for the purpose of reporting each of these things to the party membership and public in some sort of formalized report. The problems with that is (a) the HCRP doesn't do that sort of stuff and (b) no report or documentation of them doing it this year seems to exist. What they did do in the past was invite candidates for a generally informal session over snacks and chips at the party HQ with a small group of about 5 or 6 precinct chairman who belong to a committee that is officially tasked with recruiting Republican candidates to challenge democrats. They normally used it as a personal meet-and-greet session for themselves, chatted about politics, and, at the most, tried to ascertain that the candidate they were meeting with wasn't a homosexual socialist who just served 20 years for armed robbery. They never generated any formalized screening or candidate purity reports though and never published anything on behalf of the HCRP (had they ever done so it would have definately stirred up the executive committee and, depending on what was in it, possibly could have been illegal). So Corbin needs to either specify the nature of his charge with better details as to exactly what he is referring or quit making it.