GOOOH VS. I-CAUCUS (AN UGLY FEUD THAT NEEDS TO END)
As many of you know, I did a blog article on for http://www.acfcg.com on GOOOH. My plan has always been to also talk to I-Caucus and some of the other bigger groups as well. In fact, my latest article was on grassroots candidate Bill Parson (who is working with I-Caucus at this time). The goal of ACFCG is to promote citizen candidates…from wherever they rise to the top. It makes no difference to me whether they come up through GOOOH or I-Caucus. But as a patriot…I feel the need to let people know about an incident that occurred to me today.
I belong to I-Caucus on Ning, and there was a lot of chatter about GOOOH by some of the other members of I-Caucus and Frankie (or Frank) aka the I-Caucus Founder. There are people who belong to both groups…like me…and they were having a discussion with Frankie about GOOOH and trying to bring both groups together. All Frank could do was quote the website as he admits that he’s never attended a meeting or gone through the process.
Several of my patriot friends mentioned this and asked me to comment. So I did…and below is my comment on the I-Caucus Ning site. Now before you read the comment…please be informed that upon seconds of my posting the comment in the Candidate Vetting Questions group on I-Caucus, I was suspended. My guess is my post was taken down. Frank himself suspended me, and here’s the email exchange:
For violating our terms of service.
—– Original Message —– From: ”Independence Caucus”
To: ”Frankie Ray”
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:32 AM
Subject: A suspended member has sent you a message on Independence Caucus
A suspended member has sent you a message on Independence Caucus. Faith Leighton (minky1216@gmail.com) writes:
Why have I been suspended from I-Caucus?
Faith
To reinstate Faith Leighton, go to:
http://icaucus.ning.com/main/membership/listSuspended?xg_source=msg_mes_banned
As you can see…he states my suspension is for violating their terms of service. When I asked him specifically what I had done, he came back with these three:
Violation #1 - ”We encourage active participation on our board from those who have taken the time to watch the videos and who agree with our principles and our goals.”
(It doesn’t state ONLY from those who agree as that would be censorship, right?)
Violation #2 - ”We do not condone or allow anyone a) to spam our members to promote their own group or cause, and/or b) those who don’t share our principles and are only on our boards to endlessly argue and create strife.”
(My posts were my blog articles. Also, I had sent an email about ACFCG’s video candidate showcase weeks ago announcing our site. The site isn’t free…there is a very, very minimal cost for posting a video - $39 a month which certainly levels the playing field for grassroots candidates. Frank did not suspend me for that post nor did he mention that post was in violation of HIS rules).
Violation #3 - ”Please be respectful of others on this board and post only those things which are in harmony with our objectives of winning elections with people who share our principles.”
(I thought our objectives were the same…elect citizen candidates who will go to Washington, D.C. and represent the interests of WE THE PEOPLE…maybe Frank means only if they are endorsed by I-Caucus…and certainly NOT if they are being promoted by GOOOH.)
Folks…this is really scary and grieves me deeply. I thought we could all come together to take this country back. At any rate, here is the post I made on I-Caucus ”Candidate Vetting Questions” group that got me suspended from the site. It is a doozy folks…
”OMG people! THIS feud between GOOOH and I-Caucus…ridiculous…and one of the reasons the tea party groups are STILL fractured. I-Caucus has a deeper PR issue going on right now that really needs to be addressed…and I saw the first signs of that last week with the announcement that they were shifting focus. Unfortunately for some candidates, it may be too little to late.
Does I-Caucus look at straw polls and then focus on endorsing those that think will win or the people who they really should support? I’ve talked to tons of grassroots candidates who have gone through the I-Caucus process and are waiting for I-Caucus to contact them…and they get no response. They feel abandoned by I-Caucus…some of them looked at GOOOH as well and went with I-Caucus. Some of them are wondering if they made the right choice in hitching their little red wagon to I-Caucus in the first place.
When I talk to these people…I remind them that I-Caucus is all voluntary…but so is GOOOH. It’s just that Tim Cox seems to have a bit of a bigger following at this point (over 100,000 members and growing). Plus, he is funding what GOOOH is doing now on his own…he must have had a nest egg or something. And, GOOOH is organized…very organized.
Here’s the deal folks…if we don’t stop fighting amongst ourselves, we don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of taking back this country. We MUST come together. Do you know how many tea party groups are out there doing their own thing? We are continuing to play into the hands of the Progressives…and they are all laughing their asses off at us.
One thing I find VERY interesting…why does I-Caucus feel the need to attack GOOOH? I have not heard one bad thing come out of Tim Cox’s mouth about I-Caucus…not one. I’ve interviewed the man personally…and being the little stinker I am, I baited him…I was well aware of this feud because I-Caucus has attacked GOOOH mercilessly and on a regular basis. Tim refused to say one bad thing about I-Caucus. In fact, he praised I-Caucus for the good work you are doing.
I’ll say it one more time just to make sure it is sinking in…WE MUST COME TOGETHER…as American citizens. The biggest thing that I found when I attended the GOOOH meeting…we were all from different backgrounds, locales, races, creeds, religions…but we are pretty much aligned on the core issues facing our country. It’s the social issues that divide us.
Until one attends a meeting and goes through the process and a mock vote, one does not have the frame of reference on which to argue a point against GOOOH. Put your money where your mouth is…go to a meeting and see what it’s all about. The founders gave us a reset button. Tim Cox figured it out and is taking his message across the country. The man ain’t stupid…and he’s got the statistical data to back up what he is saying. Trashing GOOOH without having even attended a meeting or going through the process is not fair…it’s like NOT VOTING and then bitching about how the country is being run.”
Censorship is a scary thing…I just didn’t think it would come from our side.
Faith
