Jack Davis: The First Tea Party RINO?
Jack Davis’ character has been subject to question after having allegedly participated in petition fraud and bribery. When asked to clarify his liberal credentials with his new Tea Party persona, Jack Davis told the media: “I’ve always believed in smaller government and less taxes.” What small government, less taxes principle was at play when he supported Barack Obama in 2008? Speaking of Obama and Democrats circa 2008, Jack Davis said he’d “do everything in (his) power to get them elected in November.”
If we knew nothing else, it would be easy to write Jack Davis off as some Tea Party candidate cooked up by the DCCC, but he does have some real Tea Party support. The Tea Party Coalition in Buffalo is run by a number of political activists. One of them is the aforementioned Jim Ostrowski, who has aided many conservative campaigns like that of Jill Rowland, who ran against Louise Slaughter in NY-28. Also, conservative radio host Bob Lonsberry has endorsed Davis. (Update: Lonsberry unendorses Davis.)
What is striking is how similar the arguments for supporting Davis are to what establishment Republicans had said of Dede Scozzafava in 2010. When Bob Lonsberry endorsed Jack Davis, he failed to list any vote of Jane Corwin’s that he disagreed with, and he failed to deal with any of Jack Davis’ well-known liberal positions. Instead, his main argument was:
I like the message he (Jack Davis) will take to Washington, I like the message his election will send to the Republican Party, I like the message his win will give to political bosses everywhere.
Jack Davis’ Tea Party support is greatly fractured. Five other Tea Party groups unanimously rejected Davis’ candidacy and supported Jane Corwin. But the actions of one rogue group and a radio host have ensured that the base in NY-26 will be split and ineffectual.
The Tea Party isn’t the only group that’s split. Public Policy Polling released a poll showing Jack Davis as a clear spoiler, giving Kathy Hochul a 4-point lead.
Thanks to NY-23, New York lays claim to the very first Tea Party candidate. Now thanks to NY-26, it can also lay claim to the very first Tea Party RINO.
“What is striking is how similar the arguments for supporting Davis are to what establishment Republicans had said of Dede Scozzafava in 2010″
Tea parties that put politics ahead of the people’s movement will not survive, nor will their candidates get elected. I am using my wallet to fight the RINO Davis, and I live a thousand miles away. I hope many others do the same, so we can smack down these false patriots wherever we find them.
It’s simple mental laziness. Putting all one’s hopes into an individual and bestowing them with magical powers is no different than what half the electorate did with chairman Obie in 2008. It’s a curious phenomenon. “I support my candidate no matter what” is a serious problem. All human beings are flawed, to be sure but to support a candidate on principles when said candidate regularly and violently ignores those principles is beyond reason and is somehow based at a voter’s emotional core. I think it’s something like “battered spouse syndrome” where in spite of the obvious beatings, the spouse takes them back hoping that somehow things will change and the behavior will stop. The cycle can be broken, however but it seems that people lack the mental strength of a generation ago to understand what it means to stick to one’s principles and abandon those who would do them harm.
I’ve gotten numerous E-mails from TEA Parties all over the country that Davis is a phony, probably a Dem plant & they’re supporting Jane Corwin. As for the Buffalo Tea Party support, they’re probably as conservative as Davis is….NOT!
Perhaps this is a case of the local TEA Party movement being infiltrated and taken over by Progressives. Jut because the TEA Party movement can infiltrate and take over local wards and eventually large portions of the Republican Party does not mean they are immune to takeover themselves.
Tea Party “infiltrate”. How bizarre a thought that is.
As a native New Yorker, all I can say is that NewYork State is hopeless. That’s why I live in Texas now.
Amen, Brother Brooklyn to North Carolina for me!
Proving once again why NY sucks.
This is the time for the Tea Parties to show what they are made of. Jane Corwin should get the nomination, but so long as you have the rule in New York State allowing the decision-making for a special election to be left up to Republican chairmen, and not up to a primary vote, then only party hacks will be nominated. The problem isn’t as much with the Tea Parties as it is with the rules in New York State. That said, this is a time for the Tea Parties to hold firm and stand together. Being divided is what the Democrats want. Don’t give them the opportunity to divide you. Show them what you are made of and support Jane Corwin.
The progressives who are claiming Tea party credentials may spoil this election and succeed in electing a liberal this time, but in the long run the progressive movement is doomed. America is about to learn what Rome learned 1600 years ago, when you’re broke and are suffering moral and intellectual decay you won’t survive.
The progressives think they are about to win and take over permanently. Just the opposite is true. When the economy collapses alot of fools who ignored reality, people like Obama and Davis, are going to pay for foolishness like the Federal Reserve, Medicare, and the other trappings and lies of the modern welfare state. Those of us who have taken the time to prepare will survive. Those of us who spent their time pursuing the illusions of Marxism and supporting its institutions are going to pay for their stupidity. It is just a matter of time.
So why hasn’t that scumbag Davis been arrested already?
Oh my gosh. That words rino is soooo f’in stupid. It’s sole use is by those who aren’t even Republicans! I mean, the Tea Party does not claim allegiance with the GOP…. yet the use the term rino like they know exactly what a Republican is and what we stand for. Plus the fact that the vast majority, if not all of those aligned with the Tea Party, claim to be super Christian yet the judge people and yes, that includes politicians because they are people too, like it’s their job!
It’s all stupid.
Huh? Too many bong hits there Stephanie. Did Podesta tell you what to try to write?
It just goes to prove that to weed out the rino’s tea party grass route groups have to become involved in the day to day operations of the Republican party. That’s how the hard left radical fringe with the end justifying the means took over the Democratic party along with there shock troops the welfare class and illegals who with nothing to gain and everything to lose with fiscal responsibility will pull out all the stops to fight for what they perceive as there due for having to put up with us dirty,rotten,nogoodnik European types. Remember no matter how badly “we let them” screw up our country it’ll still be better then where they or there ancestors came from. I have a feeling we’ll be looking back at political shenanigans like trying to sneak in a vote diluting third candidate as the naive good old days
It’s clearly obvious form the “but kicking of the cameraman” incident that Jack Davis is a Coward….. and anyone who votes for him is a Coward as well.
The facts in this article about conservative radio host Bob Lonsberry are outdated. In his column written on May 11th, Lonsberry “unendorsed” candidate Jack Davis and threw him under the bus where he belongs. Lonsberry’s full article can be read here: http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=3129&go=4
NY-26 resident – Thanks for the update on Lonsberry. I actually wrote this over a week ago (sometimes it takes a while for articles to get published), which is part of the reason this information is missing. I’ll be sure to post something on my blog.
New York hopeless? CA is FAR beyond hopeless. Even living & working here in Bulgaria as we do now is much better…
Anyone can claim the Tea Party label for any reason. That’s what he did. See Kim Strausel’s column in the Wall Street Journal last Thursday or Friday. He has nothing to do with the Tea Party except to ask to put Tea Party next to his name when he entered the race.
One small point. Since when did one’s views on abortion disqualify one for Taxed Enough Already party membership?
“Tea Party Coalition leader Jim Ostrowski”
this is all we need to read
there is no “tea party coalition”; there is no tea party leader
anyone that suggests otherwise is uniformed or lying
*uninformed
This guy is a fake. He’s no Tea Party candidate. He was almost certainly put in by the Democratic machine to split the vote and let the Dem win.
Please re-read Patrick Henry’s speech to the House of Bourgesses. You do not ‘defeat’ people or parties when you get one more vote than they do in an election (recall how you ‘defeated’ HillaryCare in the 90s?). You defeat an opponent when they are, by whatever means, rendered incapable of further resistance.
Actually, Bob Lonsberry came out with a scathing column criticizing Corwin and the GOP committee for running such a horrible campaign.
http://lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?go=4
New York State politics is always about personal power first. The default position is towards big government, so it’s not as noticeable on the Democrats’ side, but given a choice between supporting a particular candidate who might be correct on the issues but you feel has slighted you in some way or might take away some of your own political control, the career behind-the-scenes pols will always come out on the side of maintaining their own fiefdoms. Ostrowski’s just in a long tradition of throwing ideology under the bus because of some problem with Corwin that outweighs any desire for ideological consistency.
I live in NY, 23rd CD. The one where the alleged Republican Congressman sold us all out to go be Obama’s shoeshine boy (John McHugh). The one where Scozzifava was presented as the Republican candidate by the national committee, who also sold us out by endorsing the Democrat who won the office.
I can simplify Ny politics even further.
There is no functional differnence between Democrats and Republicans who occupy elective office in this state. In any other state of the Union, what goes on routinely in NYS under the guise of politics would be actionable under the RICO act for operating an ongoing criminal enterprise. It has always been thus, and I await the day when I can leave for pastures less filled with the manure NY spreads so uniformly over everything it touches.
It is horrible at the state level, but you have to see what goes on at the county level to fully appreciate it.
It is not surprising that the Tea Party in NY would be infiltrated by moles from the Democrats. You can’t tell the difference between the two parties, as I have noted.
The Tea party, which is not really a party, has attempted to tell the Republicans that they should stop taking these votors for granted. I see a third party in NY, made up of a whole bunch of really pissed off people who say “A curse on both your houses!” and send up thrie own candidates.
I am one of those pissed off folks, by the way.
He’s not a RINO, he’s a TINO.
Maybe this is a NY version of Op Chaos – designed to suck votes from the Donks?
The article fails to mention that Jane Corwin was endorsed by TEANewYork, the largest Tea Party organization in Western New York, and that the “coalition” that supports Davis is five men who also happen to be on Davis’ campaign staff. We endorsed Jane Corwin on April 7th and since our beginning we have been against 3rd party runs.
TeaNewYork Press Release:
Jack Davis is NOT a Genuine Tea Party Candidate
http://teanewyork.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/jack-davis-is-not-a-genuine-tea-party-candidate/
Media Advisory:
TEA Party vs Fraudulent tea party in New York 26th district
http://albanysinsanity.wnymedia.net/blogs/2011/05/14/tea-party-vs-fraudulent-tea-party-in-new-york-26th-district/
Dont move to Charlotte. Teachers are being laid off. Dems overbuilt schools for uptown students, now have to close. Meanwhile students in suburbs are on shifts. It is great that Legislature is now Rep, but Guv is Dem. I have to gag when the Dem convention comes to town.
Some variation on what informs the above scenario, that infuses the snake pit of political porn and razzle dazzle that is New York’s 23?/26?, and the accompanying elective effluvia that will that undoubtedly will be inscribed into the playbook for Obama’s reelection. Just repeat that Alice in Wonderland, romper room, (actually, it resembles an episode from that off-beat 60′s TV series “The Prisoner”, with Patrick McGoohan. NY 23?26? What? Do the residents have names or numerical designations? Is this a black-op area where Democrat operatives go to be trained in how to infiltrate and destroy those who wander off the reservation? Like “The Prisoner”, or possibly they do this all by their lonesome (nah). Yeah we’re just being trained, via remote viewing, to accept defeat in Nov 2012, by these Alice down the wormhole proceedings in NY 26?/23? Geezus. Yes, it’s congressional district designation. Sound of fingernails on a chalkboard.
I agree with the above on reverse operation chaos. First, the Tea Party Coalition should NEVER be trusted again. Second legitimate tea partiers who generally are VERY savvy on the issues–would have a hard time buying this. Third, Richard Jonec, Bob Lonsberry and Jim Ostrowski should NEVER be trusted. Why did we not expect his? Infiltration of the tea party by the Democrats and lefties. This may be the template for what’s coming. Remember for the democrats and socialists this is a fight to the death. Politics IS their religion.
Thanks for the amusing post. The funny thing is, Corwin gave money to Scozzafava. I also get a kick out of the posters who accept this nonsense as truth. Anyway, the whole story is on my blog. Just scroll down to the Open Letter.
http://politicalclassdismissed.com/
Enjoy.