Liberty PAC to Host Candidate Night for 1 out of 12 Commissioner Hopefuls

The Liberty PAC will host next Tuesday, February 28 at 7:00 PM at the Holiday Inn Eastgate an event that will be featuring Jack Kuntz who is ONE of the 12 candidates interested in the appointment to the open County Commissioner position recently vacated by Archie Wilson.

Now the Liberty PAC/Tea Party is saying that by "attending, no one is asking you to vote for Jack or for us to assemble any block votes." Yet by blocking other candidates from participating they are doing exactly that. If they where really interested (as a Political Action Committee) in helping to field candidates they would extend the invitation to ALL the candidates running.

Now they are quick to explain why they are not, because "a large meeting would be difficult to facilitate due to the volume of candidates. Assuming 15-20 minutes of introduction per candidate, the meeting would take well over three hours, and this assumes no open time for questions."

There are other organizations that have hosted candidate nights for well more than 12 candidates, and have done so successfully. At these candidates purchase table or booth space for a nominal donation to the group hosting the event, and the public is free to come around and talk with each candidate.Yes, it may be a three or four hour event, but it provides for flexibility of schedules, and gives each candidate an opportunity to be vetted at the event. Committee members are already going to hear speeches at the March 14th meeting. As a committee member myself I can tell you I am not interested in hearing speeches so much as being able to meet and talk with candidates face to face.

Also, they state "There is nothing keeping any other individual, group, or candidate from hosting a similar event to facilitate the research of central committee members of any of the other 10 [11] known candidates." Maybe that's true, assuming that others can rent a large space, and that Committee members have time, in the middle of an election, to attend multiple meetings. I know I would not have the time to attend 12 separate meetings.

What this is really about is creating a block vote for candidate Jack Kuntz, but they don't want it to appear that way. Otherwise, why not host an event for all candidates seeking the appointment? I'm not fooled, and so are others I have talked too. I may be the one speaking out, but I am not alone in my thoughts. However, I am willing to assume the political fall out for my public display of thoughts not just of myself.

Scott Nichols, co-founder of the Clermont Tea Party commented on my face book "a couple of us got well over 80 people to run for precinct Committeemen to move the Clermont GOP toward our values."

Interesting choice of words "move the Clermont GOP toward OUR VALUES." I find this interesting because there is an assumption there that the Clermont GOP did not share the same values. How would many of these (not all) people even know having NEVER attended a meeting of the Clermont GOP? The Clermont GOP is part of the Republican Party, and unlike the Republican National Committee (RNC), has held true to Republican values of Fiscal Responsibility, Limited Government, Free Markets, Pro-Life, Pro-2nd Amendment, Pro-Religion, and other traditional CONSERVATIVE values. When publicly elected officials violated these values we got rid of them, an example would be Mary Walker who was guilty of wasting taxpayer monies.

I ask this question, (because I know many of us that have served on the Central Committee believe that we are conservatives first and Republicans second) The Tea Party only officially stands for 3 of these values, Fiscal Responsibility, Limited Government, and Free Markets. Once they succeed in replacing all incumbents, where will they strand with the rest of OUR values?