HATE LETTER SENT TO MY HOME FROM THE CONSERVATIVES

At least they got my good side! (0.00 / 0)

At least whichever mentally derranged loon did this got my good side!  That's some photoshopping skills there!

Of course, I've been a social & fiscal conservative all of my adult life but hey, there's always some crazy ultra-far right nut for whom Jesus Christ wouldn't be acceptable.  Now, I'm certainly not the Messiah but I wager that He & I would agree on pro-life, traditional marriage, fetal stem cell cloning, and etc.

I've been called many things but liberal & RINO have never credibly been one of them.

Oh well... it should've been done in color & maybe I'll get my copy in Monday's mail!  

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by: BNCordeiro @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 01:14:20 AM UTC

If they think this about you and Dave - IMAGINE what they think of me! (0.00 / 0)

I get two-three unsigned letters a month - but they are local loons.  They tend to be on small notepaper with pictues of kittens or butterflies, handwritten, and given to MUCH capitalization and emphasis marks.  Elderly liberal women is my guess.

I forwarded one of my 'evil conservative scum' emails to a local guy who replied I was nothing but a RINO anyway, so why did they bother with me?

Can't make anybody happy....

Yr. Obedient Servant, Peter Porcupine, Republican

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by: Peter Porcupine @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 06:26:27 AM UTC

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The real tragedy (5.00 / 3)

The real tragedy in this underneath the surface.  References to "RINO hunting" could be seen as political or it could be seen has a physical threat.  I choose to try to laugh it off and take a mocking attitude towards the author(s).

That said, to someone with a wife & kids it's not a laughing matter.  Ironically, I had been in Dave Roses' house yesterday for the first time.  I got the tour of the place & actually noticed his mail sitting on a table by the door.  I suppose that I looked right at the letter in question.  Dave & I had carpooled together to the MassGOP Candidates Academy in Lexington & I had left my car at his house.  Dave is the chairman of the MassGOP Candidates Academy and works tirelessly in that capacity and does s in a manner that is usually off the radar screen.  Dave isn't the loud, perhaps the even in-your-face kind of opinionated person like me.  Makes his targeting all that more interesting.  That said, it was on the drive home when I got back to Dartmouth that Dave called me up with news of the letter.

The real tragedy with the letter & its accompanying cartoon is that it comes from one of us.  It comes from within MassGOP activist circles.  This vile letter which could be construed as a threat was clearly composed by someone with intimate knowledge of the MassGOP.  Surely, the author is a self-professed conservative.  However, let me rhetorically ask everyone here on RMG.  While we know MassGOP Chairman Jennifer Nassour & Republican National Committeeman Ron Kaufman... do you really think that the average Republican knows who the heck Ron is?!  They may not even have an idea as to who Jenn is.  I would suggest that the average registered Republican isn't really aware of the State Committee structure in general.  The average Republican might want to rage against Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin or whoever is in the news... but this letter & it's cartoon is inside baseball.  

As such, this incident was created by someone who, instead of going out to register Republican voters, engage in voter identification, raise funds for their local or state Republican committee, or do any concrete steps to elect Republican candidates... these clearly disturbed individuals, perhaps suffering from some severe psychosis, have decided to try to personally attack a good, hard working, conservative Republican activist & State Committee member.  Make no mistake, David Rose is a gentleman who is both a Republican & conservative.  No, my friend, David Rose, is far - FAR - from a RINO.  The difference between David Rose (who may very well agree 99% on the issues with the letter writer) and the author is that David Rose is indeed a gentleman.  David doesn't foam & froth at the mouth with utter vile and hate.  David isn't filled with a poisonous bile deep in his gut that twists & corrupts him and his activity like the writer.  David Rose, and those within the State Committee & larger MassGOP, typifies the hard working activists who simply go about the hard, unglamorous work of party building & simply don't ask for any recognition or reward.

So, one one hand we have a serious conservative Republican State Committeeman like David Rose being viciously attacked by ultra-reactionary far right nuts who are united only in their hate of their boogeyman.  Rather then build the MassGOP - they'd rather tear it down.  Rather than spend their time trying to elect either Scott Brown or Jack E. Robinson for US Senate with a little over 2 months to go - they'd rather waste their time photshopping pictures.

Did a "RINO hunting" letter & ridiculous cartoon help defeat an incumbent Republican?  Did this activity help to elect a conservative Republican?  Heck, did it even help to advance the very agenda that its people profess?  Of course not!  

If anything, such shenanigans simply continue to show the utter lunacy of a reactionary rump and its utter desperation and desolation.

As for me?  Sure, I'm a very visible State Committeeman.  It's hard to miss me here on RMG, Facebook, Twitter, editorials, talk radio, etc.  I serve the MassGOP in a few elected & appointed capacities.  I'm an easy target.  Hey, I'm a big guy & that's fine.  I've received crazy letters from liberal Democrat loons over the years and I've laughed those off.  However, this time this attack came from within - from one of our own conservative Republicans.

The difference between me (I won't presume to speak for David, but again - he is a true conservative gentleman) and the letter writers? I can be for traditional marriage.  I can have lobbied the State House during the constitutional convention to define marriage as solely the union of 1 man & 1 woman here in the Commonwealth... yet I can do so without spewing hate.  I can do so without being homophobic.  I can do so without trying to attack, belittle, and ultimately dehumanize my fellow man.  Me?  I'm about a pro-life as you can possibly get.  I'm proud to be pro-life.  The difference between me & them?  Simple, I'm not only merely a single issue voter to the extent that I believe that I can co-exist in the same party with those who disagree with me.  That doesn't stop me from working to change their hearts & minds.  That doesn't stop me from praying & educating on life issues... but it also means that I don't take my ball & run home to the concrete bunker in my backyard.  The Bathroom Bill?  I was up with MFI lobbying against that.  I'm against fetal stem cell research.  I'm clearly pro-Second Amendment Rights.  You name it, and I probably agree with the letter writer on the issues.  

The difference?  I am a conservative who doesn't knee jerk hate my fellow Republican or simply my fellow human being.  To wrap up a very long story - I don't have to destroy others in order to build up my self-esteem and prove my conservative bona fides.

How did that Toby Keith song go?  Oh yes, "I'm a man of my convictions, call me wrong or call me right.  But I bring my better angels to every fight.  You may not like where I'm going but you sure know where I've been.  Hate me if you want to, love me if you can."  

For some people, well they may erroneously profess to be flying on the side of angels in self-delusion but they're wallowing the the demons in a Hellish political pig sty.  Why not climb on out, shower off, and join the rest of us in the MassGOP - who may not always agree, may not always work as a well oiled machine - but have a common goal to elect Republicans and enact conservative principles into public policy.

Whoever wrote that letter & created that cartoon owes David Rose an apology.  I'm not sure if he wants another letter to his house but you owe Dave a sincere & heartfelt mea culpa.  While you're at it, you owe the Massachusetts Republican Party a public confession - I suggest the next State Committee meeting on Wednesday, November 18.  Of course, I won't hold my breath for a deranged, deluded & disturbed individual to take the high road and do the right thing.  Assuming no "I'm sorry" notes or speeches are coming any time soon... please at least seek professional help.  I promise you, in order to have sent that letter, you desperately need it.

The real tragedy, is the time wasted in creating the letter and the negativity sent out that simply turns off good & decent Republicans from engaging in conservative activism.  You've done the MassGOP & conservative movement a grave disservice.  You should be ashamed.

PS - The MassGOP Candidates Academy, run by our staffers and including presentations by David Rose, Sen. Richard Tisei, Rep. Brad Jones & Rep. Jones Peterson was great.  I took the day off of work & attended just for the informational aspects and several current candidates approached me at the time & later via the net to express their positive reactions.  I'm excited about our future legislative prospects!

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by: BNCordeiro @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 15:00:59 PM UTC

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Well said. (0.00 / 0)

The real tragedy, is the time wasted in creating the letter and the negativity sent out that simply turns off good & decent Republicans from engaging in conservative activism.  You've done the MassGOP & conservative movement a grave disservice.  You should be ashamed.

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by: StartedoutRepublican @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 15:12:34 PM UTC

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a leftist made this letter (0.00 / 0)

how do I know?  because if they were right wing they would have just blogged about it and called it a day.

no justice, no peace.

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by: benwetmore @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 20:39:11 PM UTC

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Thank you for demonstrating... (0.00 / 0)

...one more time how stereotypes and ignorance govern your intellect.  This mailing refers to way to much inside conservative politics for any liberal to have a grasp of.  And when Brock and Ken concede that it is indeed fellow conservative, you are context to let your slander stink up discourse.

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by: Festus Garvey @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 13:56:37 PM UTC

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Heart-breaking! (5.00 / 1)

David - this is very disturbing and all the more reason why we MUST have frank dicussions regarding which direction we seek to travel as a Party.  First we must define who we are and what we stand for...I certainly do NOT stand for this type of conduct exhibited by a coward and bully.  

Hate has no place in politics.  I keep hoping that the GOP will return to the ideals that once made us great ... the ideals that drew me into the party so many years ago...but more and more I get the feeling that there is no place for me here, especially since we systematically "eat our own" and waste time tearing eachother apart instead of taking advantage of the GOP strides made in N.J. and VA...it will take more than momentum to win back the Governor's office in MA...it will take a team effort with everyone working toward the same goal.  That may mean putting aside old hurts and arguements of the past, forgiveness and foreward-thinking sanity.

Once our GOP candidates are determined in 2010 we must all come together to back whomever it is we nominate...otherwise, we will have sqandered the best chance we will have in the foreseeable future to return a two-party system in Massachusetts.

To para-phrase from the Founding Fathers: we must all stand together or surely we will hang apart!

"The Government that governs best governs least." R. R. "Peace through strength"

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by: agawamgirl @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 02:15:23 AM UTC

Mailings from Conservatives (0.00 / 0)

Mailings from Conservatives come from Brock.  They aren't against Brock.

Bob Hedlund for Minority Leader.

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by: Mike "DD4RP" Rossettie @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 02:58:18 AM UTC

????? (0.00 / 0)

PLEASE EXPLAIN?

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by: StartedoutRepublican @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 15:14:11 PM UTC

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This mailing does not speak for Conservatives (4.00 / 2)

This is a mailing sent by a individual nut job.  

If you want hear from a conservative, talk to Brock.  He's a conservative activist in the party who is being directly, and unfairly, attacked in this mailer.  As a conservative, I would be proud to stand with Brock Cordeiro any day against this nonsense.

Bob Hedlund for Minority Leader.

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by: Mike "DD4RP" Rossettie @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 15:26:32 PM UTC

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I seem to recall (0.00 / 0)

a picture going around of superman with Paul Ferro's head photo-shopped to it. lol I know this isn't the place to bring it up but the photoshopping above made me remember it haha.

As for the idiot who did that. prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.

Alex S.
Chairman of the Springfield RCC
Mandate to Lead!!! lol

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by: SpringfieldGOPSec @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 03:29:00 AM UTC

Hmmm.... (5.00 / 1)

making threats against people who are likely to be packing?  BRILLIANT!

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by: JoeTS @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 11:23:05 AM UTC

Thank you for posting about this here. (5.00 / 1)

I must tell you that 4 times a year I receive a very threatening letter in the mail that really upsets me to the core.  It is from a liberal no doubt and the very text of the letter is sickening.  I am going to call the police the next time it comes to my house.

It starts with the same wording every time.

"PROPERTY TAX BILL"

Sincerely,
Customercentricity and Resource Allocations Coordinator
Chief Aggravation Officer
Redmassgroup.com

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by: Vote3rdpartynow @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 12:08:39 PM UTC

It should be "You're" no "Your." (0.00 / 0)

It should also be RINO or R.I.N.O, not Rino.

Bob Hedlund for Minority Leader.

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by: Mike "DD4RP" Rossettie @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 15:04:46 PM UTC

LOL @ grammar lesson (5.00 / 1)

Centurion: What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?
Brian: It says, "Romans go home. "
Centurion: No it doesn't ! What's the latin for "Roman"? Come on, come on !
Brian: Er, "Romanus" !
Centurion: Vocative plural of "Romanus" is?
Brian: Er, er, "Romani" !
Centurion: [Writes "Romani" over Brian's graffiti] "Eunt"? What is "eunt"? Conjugate the verb, "to go" !
Brian: Er, "Ire". Er, "eo", "is", "it", "imus", "itis", "eunt".
Centurion: So, "eunt" is...?
Brian: Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
Centurion: But, "Romans, go home" is an order. So you must use...?  

Listen to me on 1420 AM New Bedford from 2-6 PM or over the internet at www.wbsm.com from 2-6 PM. You can also go to my blog at www.kenpittman.com

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by: Ken Pittman @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 18:19:03 PM UTC

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I wonder when "SHE" was in Boston? (0.00 / 0)

"I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others" Anthem by Ayn Rand  

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by: kyllacon @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 19:58:28 PM UTC

[hidden comment] many incidents like this (0.00 / 2)

end up being self-made attempts.  not saying that's true here, but just throwing it out there.

the jewish girls who scribble swastikas on their doors, tawana bruxley, the girl in West Virginia a month or two ago, the college Republican attacked by an obama supporter and writing "B" on her face...

just saying.

no justice, no peace.

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by: benwetmore @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 20:43:21 PM UTC

As Benwetmore stated, it may hvae been sent by a liberal. (0.00 / 0)

Just rip it up and throw it away. Laugh it off folks and move on. Yeah, it sucks but.....
Can it be any worse than the health care bill that just passed ??

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by: politicalmadman @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 22:54:21 PM UTC

Though (5.00 / 1)

this is quite childish, how is this from "the conservativeS"??

Seems like the brain fart of ONE alleged conservative.

"I acknowledge having racist and classist and sexist feelings of white male superiority." -John Howard

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by: ElectricStrawberry @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 23:45:43 PM UTC

How to Piss Off a Conservative? (0.00 / 0)

Call him a RINO. It had to be someone who wants to get under Brock and Dave's skin.

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by: BlueBerry67 @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 00:02:00 AM UTC

Good laugh (5.00 / 1)

I won't speak for David but I roared with laughter when I heard about it and then again when I actually saw it.

As far as who made it... I have a pretty good idea of who the culprit(s) are & unfortunately it would come from the self-professed "pure" conservative wing of the party.

But hey, I won't bother to waste any more time on it than I already have.  I've got much more important things to do... like dedicate myself to building the MassGOP - especially locally & within my region - electing Scott Brown as our next US Senator & doing my utmost to elect Charlie Baker as our next governor.

Let us get back to the business of promoting conservative principles through the election of Republican candidates!  

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by: BNCordeiro @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 02:58:33 AM UTC

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I'm still rather new to politics but.. (0.00 / 0)

is it bad that I have no idea who that dude holding the strings is?

Alex S.
Chairman of the Springfield RCC
Mandate to Lead!!! lol

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by: SpringfieldGOPSec @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 00:28:38 AM UTC

Thats's Ron Kaufman, National Committeeman... (0.00 / 0)

...since....well....longer than you've been alive...

"(He) is a Meathead"

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by: Paul R. Ferro @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 02:57:19 AM UTC

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dude's hand is a little messed up (0.00 / 0)

he should get that looked at.

no justice, no peace.

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by: benwetmore @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 07:55:28 AM UTC

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It's not really his hand! (5.00 / 2)

Read all about the grand international conspiracy uncovered in this picture in Dan Brown's new thriller "Out of Ideas" coming soon.

Was it the Knights Templar?  The Illuminati?  Brock Cordiero?  The Lizard People?

Find out in Dan Brown's new epic "Out of Ideas"

available at Amazon.com

Bob Hedlund for Minority Leader.

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by: Mike "DD4RP" Rossettie @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 14:03:41 PM UTC

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Sorry Dan Brown, it can't be me (3.50 / 2)

I've read all of Dan Brown's books & well I simply could not be the shocking twist in the grand international conspiracy - after all, he always uses the Freemasons as his plot device & I'm a Catholic who belongs to the Knights of Columbus.  I'm automatically excommunicated if I join the Masons.  :)

Then again, Brown wasn't too nice to the Catholic Church in either Angels & Demons or the DaVinci Code.  

The problem with whoever made the cartoon is that they think that they are proverbially more Catholic than the Pope!  Forget Traditionalists, they're Sedevacantists!    

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by: BNCordeiro @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 14:08:15 PM UTC

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of course if it WAS you, you'd say exactly that (0.00 / 0)

they all say "but but but, it COULDN'T be me"

I don't know...

no justice, no peace.

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by: benwetmore @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 10:09:36 AM UTC

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I can never decide if "lizard people" is serious or not (0.00 / 0)

or if it's just a codeword.

I remember watching some interview with an ADL stooge who kept insisting that they of course didn't mean real lizards, that it was just a codeword, with the guy saying, "no no no, we really mean lizards, real lizards, scales..."

Hilarious.

Personally though, I think the Masons, Knights Templar, Illuminati, Brock, lizards are all part of a grander conspiracy:

also my favorite movie.

no justice, no peace.

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by: benwetmore @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 10:08:32 AM UTC

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More of this coming (4.00 / 1)

As the false paradigms and society breaks down.  Problem is people don't know who the real enemy is, they will lash out each based upon their own illusions and we will have an ultimate mess of not being able to unite anybody around anything.

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by: Lasthorseman @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 15:13:30 PM UTC

Ahhhhh, finally someone who understands what is happening, thank you !! (0.00 / 0)

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by: politicalmadman @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 01:48:56 AM UTC

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I could tell you where it comes from (0.00 / 0)

but that might turn you off.

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by: Lasthorseman @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 23:25:30 PM UTC

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Even Fred Flinstone had some gems every once in a while !! (0.00 / 0)

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by: politicalmadman @ Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 03:30:31 AM UTC

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DNA language has uber rightwing Fall River leadership all over it. (5.00 / 1)

L.R. can also stand for "Losing Republicans". This is immature, low brow and, I'm afraid typical of what has happened to our Fall River team. Both David and Brock are exactly who we want on the team and instead, we have a small fringe cell in the SE MASS GOP who would prefer a monolithic echo chamber even if they can call for conferences in a phone booth.

Leave the ridiculing of outlandish policy to the experts (me) and try something different; GROW the Republican Party.

I don't care if the proxy used came from the Boston area, only a specific few (2) people call Rose and Cordeiro these things.

Listen to me on 1420 AM New Bedford from 2-6 PM or over the internet at www.wbsm.com from 2-6 PM. You can also go to my blog at www.kenpittman.com

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by: Ken Pittman @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 18:12:41 PM UTC

As long as... (0.00 / 0)

...the small fringe is in power they don't care if they ever get someone elected.

"Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation." -Ronald Reagan

www.inBrockton.com

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by: BrocktonDave @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 13:37:23 PM UTC

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Wow...first you cheer when the US loses the Olympics... (0.00 / 0)

There are people in the world that even Ken Pittman thinks is part of a small fringe conservative politics...frightening.

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by: Festus Garvey @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 13:52:06 PM UTC

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The real Brock (5.00 / 1)

Several times I have introduced Brock to people i know, or I have told people about Brock. This is how I sum up Brock.

Brock cares about three things...

Disney
The Republican Party
The Catholic Church.

How can a personw ith such intelligent choices as to what he cares about possible be a bad guy?

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by: VESuggestions @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 15:16:19 PM UTC

You forgot of course... (0.00 / 0)

Wally World

"Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation." -Ronald Reagan

www.inBrockton.com

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by: BrocktonDave @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 15:32:40 PM UTC

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Not exactly (0.00 / 0)

I've been employed by WallyWorld for the past 13 years & 4 months but I won't exactly claim that it reaches anywhere near the aforementioned 3.  :)

Unlike with Uncle Walt and Ronaldus Magnus, I don't have a statue of Uncle Sam in my house.

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by: BNCordeiro @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 16:01:11 PM UTC

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Unfair (0.00 / 0)

While he loves all of the above, he is also very active in charities all throughout the year. You left out his comic book collection but even so, one would be undercutting a very decent soul by defining him with those three things.  

Listen to me on 1420 AM New Bedford from 2-6 PM or over the internet at www.wbsm.com from 2-6 PM. You can also go to my blog at www.kenpittman.com

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by: Ken Pittman @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 17:29:55 PM UTC

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40,000+ (0.00 / 0)

Well, it is true that I own over 40,000 comic books in my personal collection (tomorrow is new comic day where I go pump money into the economy at my local mom & pop comic shop).

However, yes I do get involved with several charitable activities throughout the year - both personally & in conjunction with my employment.  However, I don't often like to speak of those, beyond what is required for PR for work purposes, as well... I'd rather give (or do) and not to count the cost.

VESuggestions has been a friend of mine for oh well, probably over a decade at this point and his definition of me using those 3 items was certainly well intentioned & well taken, thank you both VE & Ken!

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by: BNCordeiro @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 21:08:51 PM UTC

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No, thank you for your volunteer work. (0.00 / 0)

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by: politicalmadman @ Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 03:32:53 AM UTC

[ Parent ]