First, lets start with a bit of background on the Houston political scene. For years, when a story hits a news outlet, the lefty bloggers in Houston have had their way in forming the “narrative” on said story. Narrative is everything when it comes to public perception. For instance, last fall, Harris County Tax Assessor/Collector Leo Vasquez settled a lawsuit that was filed against his predecessor. The average person most likely has the perception that the Democrats “won” that lawsuit but the fact is that no one “won” and the agreement is nothing if not benign. Read it for yourself if you don’t believe me. But that perception is out there because the left was able to drive the narrative surrounding the settlement.
The reason they have been able to do that is multi-faceted but it really boils down to the reality that the conservative side of the Houston political scene focuses on national issues and more importantly, we don’t have “party bloggers”. I don’t know who came up with that term but I see Dr. Kevin Whited over at blogHOUSTON.net use it frequently to describe the small group of lefty bloggers that pass the same email around the block, using the same bullet points, and the email always supports the Democratic Party. At least that is my definition of it, Kevin’s might be different.
So they win the day in the blogosphere and thus win the narrative in public perception. And this is compounded by the unfortunate reality that Houston’s newspaper of record, the Houston Chronicle, has been in turmoil for years and often misses the story or adopts the narrative posed by these guys, as in the case of the editorial board. YMMV, but that’s my take on it.
Now, lets get back to the party. While I was away, Mr. Vasquez held a press conference regarding the Houston Votes effort that I wrote about earlier. Here is his full statement, from which I pull this quote:
Evidence shows that the Houston Votes and Texans Together organization is conspiring in a pattern of falsification of government documents, suborning of perjury and a deliberate effort to over-burden our processing system with thousands of duplicate and incomplete voter registration applications. Even worse, the paid personnel of Houston Votes and Texans Together are alarming citizens with wild stories about the integrity of the voter registration database.
Now, you would think that people would take that seriously, even if you were a party blogger. Especially since Houston Votes claims to be non-partisan, which is questionable but at least they were able to maintain some plausibility of that stance prior to Mr. Vasquez’s press conference and the Texas Democratic Party jumping in to sue Mr. Vasquez. I think we can safely say that all pretense of non-partisanship went out the door with that lawsuit.
This is a big and complicated story now and blog posts aren’t well suited for big and complicated stories. So I need to break it up and I might write about it 10 times or 2, I don’t know right now. But I think it is best at this point to simply show you what the title of this post says: these “Top Houston political bloggers” don’t give a damn about the truth.
The reason for that is that they hate Republicans and conservatives. Literally hate them. Read them for a few days and you’ll know what I mean. But there is one group that they especially hate and treat with vulgar language and that would be anyone that attends, attended, thinks about, or has anything to do with “Tea Parties”. Make no mistake – they hate us and they aren’t going to change, so we might as well fight back and shove it right up where the sun doesn’t shine.
So the natural thing for them to do is to put the focus anywhere but on the actual facts of Mr. Vasquez’s press conference. When they found out that members from True the Vote were in attendance at the press conference, and were quoted in several news articles, they had their hook. Every single one of them took this and ran with it, never focusing on the truth. And the truth is that Mr. Vasquez was correct. Even the Project Director of Houston Votes agrees with Mr. Vasquez that FRAUD was committed by his workers:
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Watch that video. As Dr. Whited points out, at the 1:20 mark or thereabouts, Sean Caddle admits it. Let me ask you something: did any party blogger point that out? Did any news outlet run that clip? Nope. Narrative, folks, keep that in mind. And remember, they HATE you, so don’t think you can win them over by being nice to them.
Let’s start with the big dog of those “Top Houston political bloggers”, Charles Kuffner. Charles is a super nice person, a family man, he works very hard at blogging, and is recognized around the state for his work. And he has helped me with the Judical Q&A’s that you see here on Big Jolly Politics. But make no mistake: he is a party blogger and he HATES you. If he didn’t, do you think he would describe you repeatedly with a vulgarity that describes a sex act between homosexual men? I don’t.
So let’s grab a quote from one of his takes on the admitted fraud:
The other point has to do with the character of True the Vote, since they’re presenting themselves as some kind of defenders of truth, justice, and the American way. To that end, I direct you to Glenn Smith, who shows that one other thing True the Vote stands for is creating fake images to further their goals. Note to Leo Vasquez: You should be more careful about who you get into bed with.
Do you want to talk about character Charles? Fine. You just LIED about True the Vote. True the Vote, specifically Catherine Engelbrecht and her team that produced that video, did not create that fake image. You lied, Charles. A cursory check of the internet would have prevented you from lying about that group. Want to know how I know this? Because I did that cursory check. It is real easy: go to Google. Click on Images in the upper left. Type “voter fraud” in the search box. Click Search.
Right there on the top row is the image that you just lied about. And it is from 2009. Scroll down the page and guess what? You find the same image from 2008. Keep scrolling and you will find others just like it.
You know what I thought at that point? Ah ha, it looks like someone was making a video and needed a representative picture, typed “voter fraud” in Google and said, hey, that fits this situation perfectly! Happens every single freaking day of the year. So I decided to call Catherine Engelbrecht and ask her if that is what happened. Oh, I know what you are thinking! I have some super secret phone number for her because I’m one of those dreaded people you like to mock with a vulgar term, right? Actually, no. I just clicked on the contact page for King Street Patriots, dialed the phone number, left a message and she called me back.
Guess what! I was right. They grabbed an image off the web after typing in “voter fraud”.
And yet you question their character and LIED about them, Charles. All to divert people away from the truth, as admitted to by the director of the Houston Votes project. You should be ashamed but somehow, I doubt it.
Let’s play along just a little bit more by checking out the link that Mr. Kuffner used to base his lie upon. The link takes you to a blog put up by Stace Medillin, again, a nice guy, family type of guy, but again, he HATES you. Read through a few of his pieces and you will see that you, Mr. and Mrs. Tea Partier (no, I won’t use his vulgar term) are RACIST. He HATES you. Don’t forget that.
Here is a quote from the piece that Mr. Kuffner used as the basis for his lie:
DosCentavos.net questioned the validity of Vasquez’s accusations toward Houston Votes given the fact that he allowed access to voter information to an obviously partisan organization.
Now, seein’ as how Mr. Medillin is a “Top Houston political blogger” and all, it pretty much sucks that I have to explain to him how to get the information that he says forces him to question Mr. Vasquez (note that he doesn’t question Mr. Caddle’s admission that fraud was committed). Here you go, Stace.
First, go to the Harris County Tax Assessor Collector’s website, enter the precinct number that you are interested in and BAM!, you have all of the registered voters in that precinct on your little computer. How ’bout that? A hayseed like me could do it but a “Top Houston political blogger” didn’t have a clue. Know what? A bunch of people have already done that for each and every precinct, copied them to a CD and will sell it to you for 25 bucks or so. Now, sir, you are armed!
Oh, but, tsk, tsk, you say, what about the new registrations? Sigh. Do I really have to tell a “Top Houston political blogger” how to file an open records request? Okay, okay. Get back to the HCTA website and click on the contact page. Then click on the bright blue link that says “Click here to access an Open Records Request form.” BAM! Just like that a form opens up and you can request your little self away. It even tells you where to send it.
Now, pray tell, if this ol’ hayseed from Pasadena could do it, don’t you think one of them there “obviously partisan organizations” like True the Vote could figure it out? Hmm?
Geez, I’m beginning to wonder about these “Top Houston political bloggers”. Big dog lies, little dog doesn’t know how to file open records requests. Strange but in the liberal world, perhaps we need to question the definition of “top”.
One other little thing about men that know about an obscure sexual act that homosexual males use to get their rocks off: how’d they come to be so intimate with that term?
Leo Vasquez Presentation of ADMITTED FRAUD
True the Vote website – get up off your ass and help them by becoming a poll watcher.
King Street Patriots website – go to their meetings every Monday night and keep informed.
Remember: they HATE you. Don’t be afraid to fight back because nothing you can do will change that basic fact. Returning this country to the right path is worth fighting for so get out there and FIGHT. I’ll have more fun in the next few days.