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10-4-2010--Tea Party Leadership Endorses Tancredo
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO—More than 30 tea party leaders and grassroots activists from across Colorado today announced their endorsement of gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo, adding their names to a rapidly growing list of conservatives supporting the former Republican Congressman.
“The prospect of having Mayor John Hickenlooper win the governorship of the State of Colorado is unacceptable to us,” said Bob Marshall, secretary of Hear Us Now! “Colorado citizens need assurance that we are doing the best we can to support a solid and winning conservative candidate to represent us in the Colorado State Capitol. Based on polling trends and the direction that the governor’s race has taken over the course of the last several weeks, we firmly believe that candidate Tom Tancredo represents Colorado’s best choice in this race. We strongly urge you to add your support to ours – for the sake of Colorado.”
The following grassroots activists have endorsed Tom Tancredo for governor of Colorado. Their endorsements reflect their personal views and do not represent in any way the memberships or organizations to which they belong.
–Brian Campbell, co-organizer, first Denver Tea Party rally 2/27/09, co-organizer of the 2009 Denver Tax Day Tea Party, co-founder, Hear Us Now!, and former Republican candidate for CD-7
–Jenny Hatch, opening speaker for the first Denver Tea Party rally 2/27/09 and organizer of the Constitution Tea Party
–Keith Peterson, chairman and co-founder, Hear Us Now! (organizers of the 2009 and 2010 Denver Tax Day Tea Parties)
–Charles Patricoff, vice-chairman, Hear Us Now!
–Robert Marshall, secretary, Hear Us Now!
–Craig Jones, treasurer, Hear Us Now!
–Nancy McKiernan, founder, Tea Party Brewing
–Patricia Bechtoldt, co-organizer, Genesee Conservatives
–Maria Fullinwider, co-organizer, Genesee Conservatives
–Margo Knutson, co-founder/developer, Coffee4Conservatives
–Mitch Knutson, co-founder, Coffee4Conservatives
–Crista Huff, political teacher/writer
–Kathy Baker, co-organizer, The Original Colorado Tea Party, former co-organizer, Evergreen/Conifer Tea Party
–Grace Charree, co-organizer, The Original Colorado Tea Party, and organizer of the Rocky Mountain Tea Party
–Annette Cole, co-organizer, Rocky Mountain Tea Party
–Charcie Russell
–Abigail Keating, organizer, Clear Creek Tea Party
–Virginia Young, founder, Broomfield 912, founder and co-organizer, In God We Trust 912
–Jen Raiffie, conservative activist and Adams County Republican precinct committee person
–Marla Gillespie, co-organizer, In God We Trust 912, member Denver/Front Range 912
–Francesca Subramanian, co-founder and board member of a local liberty group
–Guy Pacot, grassroots activist
–Katherine Vitale, conservative grassroots activist
–Nancy Wenlock, grassroots activist
–Mick and Vickie Murray, Tancredo area captains for North El Paso County and grassroots activists in the conservative movement
–Rob Timmons, grassroots activist
–Brian Pike, co-founder and former president of Revive Our American Republic (ROAR)
–Leslie White, grassroots activist
–John Ransom, former Douglas County GOP chair and grassroots activist
–Brian Wilson, grassroots activist
–Phil and Marge North, tea partiers from Evergreen
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WOW, 30 people mostly with Hear Us Now choose to endorse Tancredo. Many of the others I have never heard of or seen at any of the Coalition Leadership meetings. I know that T.T.'s followers have very little option other than to join our website and us it for continuous propoganda but really there are options available. The ATP had an election to endorse Dan Maes and he won overwhelmingly. The ATP went to Caucus and Assemblies and Dan won again. Your Paragon is losing this race just as the Tea Party Candidate. Things may unfold in the following weeks that could change the election or they may not. Either way you have just wasted our time and approximately 20 minutes of my time in addressing this issue yet once again.
Fredrick Lindner
Former ATP Coordinator
You didn't have to read this Fredrick!!! Sorry that you thought your valuable time was wasted when people are trying to show others the reality of the situation and that there is a choice
Fredrick Lindner said:WOW, 30 people mostly with Hear Us Now choose to endorse Tancredo. Many of the others I have never heard of or seen at any of the Coalition Leadership meetings. I know that T.T.'s followers have very little option other than to join our website and us it for continuous propoganda but really there are options available. The ATP had an election to endorse Dan Maes and he won overwhelmingly. The ATP went to Caucus and Assemblies and Dan won again. Your Paragon is losing this race just as the Tea Party Candidate. Things may unfold in the following weeks that could change the election or they may not. Either way you have just wasted our time and approximately 20 minutes of my time in addressing this issue yet once again.
Fredrick Lindner
Former ATP Coordinator
I will always address and shine the light on propoganda garbage when I see it on this site. The article was written and titled "Tea Party Leadership Endorses Tancredo", this is an abject and absolute false statement if it is to forward the the Colorado Tea Party Coalition of over 20 organizations has decided to endorse Tancredo. I have spoken to with the leadership involved and Hear Us Now choose to release this information weeks ago to the media due in large part that they were uncomfortable with how Dan Maes was addressing the total distortions made against him. Dan finally addressed the issue a few days after they made that decision. Their opinion was that if Dan could not slap down this pathetic story then how would he perform as Governor. That is why they made that decision. Ever heard of that before or how that story was told before from the Tancredo campaign? Propably not since they were the ones who invented the story line to distort the truth, lie, cheat and steal this election. I am replying to everyone involved that if this were the tactics that a Governor would instill in the office of the CEO of Colorado that we would all be in deep trouble. Joe, you seem to be connected to the Tancredo campaign is some form. Find out for us how much money, time, effort, and propoganda has been sent to T.T.'s campaign from such people as Peter Boyles, Dan Caplas, and Mike Brown. I bet if you totalled the amount it would add to 10's of thousands of dollars in value to his campaign in attacking Dan Maes. Each person would have a financial maximum spent, but how much is a 30 hour a week broadcast time attacking one person for political gain cost these days.
Fredrick
Joe Piccoli said:
You didn't have to read this Fredrick!!! Sorry that you thought your valuable time was wasted when people are trying to show others the reality of the situation and that there is a choice
Fredrick Lindner said:WOW, 30 people mostly with Hear Us Now choose to endorse Tancredo. Many of the others I have never heard of or seen at any of the Coalition Leadership meetings. I know that T.T.'s followers have very little option other than to join our website and us it for continuous propoganda but really there are options available. The ATP had an election to endorse Dan Maes and he won overwhelmingly. The ATP went to Caucus and Assemblies and Dan won again. Your Paragon is losing this race just as the Tea Party Candidate. Things may unfold in the following weeks that could change the election or they may not. Either way you have just wasted our time and approximately 20 minutes of my time in addressing this issue yet once again.
Fredrick Lindner
Former ATP Coordinator
I posted a cautionary statement a while back when all the controversy surrounding Dan Maes first broke. I strongly urged people to wait until the details were out, the haze of propaganda had cleared and make their decisions based on full-picture information. This is my follow-up recommendation after careful analysis of the situation.
Dan Maes has chosen not to be forthcoming or direct in dealing with the controversy that seems to continue to swell up around him. It was initially just a minor campaign donation issue. It's now grown into far more - very probably because he avoided it, ignored it and gave the appearance that he was hiding from it. Regardless of actual guilt or not, and regardless of whether it is "fair" or not - it was Dan's CHOICE whether to address the doubts being created about him, or not to. He chose not to. That was, in my opinion, a huge mistake on his part. Agree or disagree with me on that part - his choices have undeniably left him unelectable. He knows that. There's no way he can't know that at this point. Which means he is remaining in this race at the expense of Coloradans purely for the sake of appearances and/or ego.
Tom Tancredo, on the other hand, has been direct on the issues, straight forward about his intentions as governor and he's met every challenge to the legitimacy of his candidacy with strong, unwavering conviction. There's obviously no doubt he's a conservative; I don't recall anyone ever questioning that.
At this point, I see no reason for any conservative American who loves this state (and country) to feel obligated to remain positioned in support of a candidate who made the CHOICE not to exercise full transparency and meet challenges head-on before they are even in office. If Dan Maes doesn't believe in himself enough to step forward and stand down the accusations and propaganda with full disclosure, open communication and every shred of evidence he had available to him to counter the claims - then conservatives in Colorado can not be expected to remain steadfastly behind him just because he happened to get the "R" behind his name before all of the controversy hit the fan.
I still don't know if Dan Maes is actually guilty of the things they claim - because Dan Maes has chosen not to give us enough verifiable information to make an educated decision for ourselves. So, my vote will be going to Tom Tancredo. It's my STRONG opinion that every conservative person, and group, should be endorsing Tom at this point, and asking Dan to really do some soul searching, consider from the heart what is truly in the best interest of the people of Colorado - and step out of the race. If he has any political aspirations beyond this election cycle, it's the one action that will salvage any hope of realizing those goals for him, in my opinion.
But this one is either going to Tancredo or Hickenlooper. Can Maes really afford to hand this state over to Hickenlooper? Does he have a RIGHT to do that to an entire state? (Legally, yes, of course. But, morally?)
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