You ask what is thought of Simcox? I think he is a phony candidate who filed papers to run simply because he could use his national name to get donations to his campaign and walk off with them once he ducks out of the race. Nothing says he has to return the contributions, so he is selling piecemeal his reputation at $25 per contribution.
Back on December 29, 2007, on Patriots Corner Forum, I posted a letter entitled: Jim Campbells Letter to His Attorney.
Here is the final paragraph of that letter:
. . . . In closing, as a consequence of the medias exposure of criminal acts by Declaration Foundation, together with the the on-going lack of candor, the misrepresentations, the twisting of the facts and percentages, exaggerations, Simcoxs needless name-calling of his adversaries, the failure/refusal to disclose pertinent information and to answer legitimate questions have, cummulatively, had the effect of turning off potential donors - thus making it more and more likely that my donation (in what I anticipated would be a monument to the financial and personal sacrifice of thousands of like-minded patriots), will have been squandered in a seemingly, well-intentioned, but short-lived monument to deceit on the border. It is clear to me now that this fence project was conceived as a grand facade - a scheme - to attract endless streams of donations from the public who placed blind faith (as I did) in both the sincerity and trustworthiness of its promoters. A project that was intially represented to me personally by Kunz (and to the public via website and media announcements, etc.) to be of a viable, credible, Israeli-style fence - and of a sufficient 10-mile length - thus enabling it to stand up to public and media scrutiny -has turned out to be a .9 of a mile of fractionally completed demonstration fenceand 10 miles of barbed wire cattle fence, which Simcox has described as Phase One of the fence project. The .9 of a mile of fence has languished in an on-going state of distress and/or inactivity since mid-February. I am reminded of this every month when I make an $850 interest payment on a loan that is consuming my equity in my home.
Jim Campbell
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