Interesting Items - Monday Nov 7, 2011 Come visit us at our new web site: www.interestingitems.org Leave your thoughts, comments and opinions. We look forward to hearing from you. Interesting Items Alex Gimarc [email protected] Monday Oct 24, 2011 Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy – In this issue: 1. Polling 2. Cain 3. Solyndra 4. Voting 5. Providence 6. Unions 1. Polling. Polling on the Republican presidential race over the last month has had Romney steady at around 25% of the likely voters, Perry falling to fourth, Cain tied or ahead of Romney, and Gingrich rising. So the conventional wisdom today is that Perry is done, and that the conservative anybody but Romney vote is lurching around looking for a likely candidate. The media appears to be actively writing Perry off at this point as damaged goods. Imagine my surprise when a Rasmussen poll out of Wisconsin last week shows Perry as the only Republican candidate capable of beating Obama in Wisconsin. Rasmussen polled 500 Wisconsin voters. Obama beats both Romney and Cain by 4% and 6% respectively. Given reported state and national polling over recent weeks, this result is either an outlier or there is something else going on. I did a little digging and find that some Perry supporters are of the opinion that a lot of the recent state and national polling is being used as push-polling, asking presidential preferences without having all the candidates names available to select from. For example, they list head to head matchups between Romney and Obama, Cain and Obama, and Gingrich vs Obama, but rarely Perry vs Obama. They seem to be pushing Romney, Cain and now Gingrich as desirable candidates, leaving Perry on the outside looking in. This appears to be a little from Black Helicopter / Tinfoil Hat land, but a certain level of paranoia is appropriate in all political campaigns. What I do know is that Perry is the only candidate that has promised to make Washington DC as irrelevant to our daily lives as possible, and the establishment of both parties finds this as a threat. Keep watching. There appear to be things going on under cover that may very well surprise us all in the coming months. Article on the Wisconsin polling: http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-san-diego/rick-perry-beats-obama-rasmussen-wisconsin-poll 2.Cain. Somebody finally decided that Herman Cain is a serious threat to their candidacy and dropped a dime regarding multiple sexual harassment complaints against Cain last week. Politico, comprised of multiple former Washington Post and JournoList members* published over 60 stories about sexual harassment complaints made against Cain while he headed up the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. To date, there have been four women alleged to have made complaints. One held a press conference with Gloria Allred this morning. In some ways, this smells a lot like the bogus complaints made against Clarence Thomas by Anita Hill in 1991. Except for trying to blame the allegations on the Perry campaign, Cain acquitted himself reasonably well during the festivities. This entire event is a test of methods and timing for the upcoming campaign by the media, and is an example of the sort of trash that will be tossed at all conservatives by leftists about to lose power next year during the campaign. From the leftist point of view, 2012 is for all the marbles and there will be no limits on what they will use to retain power. It is up to us as conservatives to stand up to the onslaught. Who would benefit from dropping the dime on Cain? The first one to benefit would be Cain himself, as his fundraising and name recognition has spiked upward during the festivities. This has not hurt him so far. The second one to benefit would be Newt Gingrich, who like Cain is an old Georgia boy, and has known Cain from Georgia for decades. Newt benefits by replacing Cain as the not-Romney candidate. Third one to benefit would be Romney himself, who stands to benefit as the various not-Romney candidates fall by the wayside. Fred Thompson believes Romney was involved in an anti-Thompson web presence during the 2008 campaign. Romney has the resources and money to do this. He also has a relatively friendly media on the left. Finally, Rick Perry would benefit by Cain falling by the wayside. However, given that the media has given him the Palin treatment for the last month, his supporters would have little chance of doing this without being discovered and outed loudly and publicly. *FYI, Geroge Soros has hired 100 journalists to write left-sided political mews 3. Solyndra. A house committee subpoenaed all WH documents associated with the Solyndra scandal last week. This was after the WH had sent over 80,000 pages of documents – most of them irrelevant and those that were relevant were heavily redacted a week ago. Obama’s WH Counsel sent a letter to the House refusing to comply with the subpoena on the grounds that it would interfere with Obama executing his constitutional duties as president. We now have Obama channeling the ghost of Richard Nixon and the Nixon WH from 40 years ago. Congratulations on bringing Hope and Change to the Beltway. Ignoring a House subpoena is a very big deal, so one wonders why they are going to the mattresses on this. After all, Solyndra was a mere half billion dollars of taxpayer dollars wasted on green energy. There have been a lot more, far larger disasters from this gang of thugs. Solyndra is important because it demonstrates the fraudulent nature of the 2009 Stimulus and green renewable energy. The fraud is that hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars were steered to companies and unions headed up by democrat supporters and campaign money bundlers. That money was then laundered through the various unions, renewable energy, green energy, and earth friendly businesses, and then returned to the democrat party as campaign contributions. In short, the democrats have figured out how to fund their campaigns, indeed their very existence with our tax dollars. This is why they will fight to the death to keep from losing the election next year, as if they are defunded, they are dead. And this is why they will fight to the bitter end to continue the Solyndra cover up, for when the general public finally figures out that things green are simply campaign funding resources for democrats, they are finished. Solyndra is the tip of the ice berg. It is just the beginning. 4.Voting. Colorado voters last week rejected a ballot initiative intended to jack up sales and income taxes by nearly $3 billion to support public schools (and public unions controlling the schools). The initiative was rejected nearly 2:1, a significant blow to the hopes of unions and the democrats in office that supported it. Ohio voters go to the polls Tuesday. The two most important initiatives are one that would overturn changes made to union bargaining and pension laws passed by John Kasch’s conservative majority earlier this year. These reforms are essentially the same as what the conservative majority passed in Wisconsin and that the unions have been fighting against the last year in their endless campaign. The vote is expected to be a slam dunk for the unions, as they have been pouring everything including the kitchen sink into the campaign to repeal.* An insider view leaked last week had the campaign as a tossup. The other ballot initiative would allow Ohio to opt out of ObamaCare completely. We hope both initiatives pass. *Update: Union won. This initiative did not pass. 5. Providence. The largest private hospital here in Anchorage announced last week that they would no longer hire anybody who was a tobacco user. They “promise” to leave current employees who smoke and chew alone for the time being. The totalitarian prohibitionist impulse runs strong on the left, allowing blunt, nasty discrimination against anyone who is not in a protected class. The excuse given included all the expected claptrap about healthy lifestyles, saving insurance money, healthy workplace, yada, yada, yada. Yet every single insurance plan has allowances for smokers. The bad health effects of smoking have been in the actuarial tables for decades, over half a century. Expect employees who are overweight to be next up to bat, as their health is statistically at risk. Interestingly enough, Providence will not discriminate against hiring women of child bearing age (childbirth is an expense). They will not discriminate against blacks (sickle cell anemia hits blacks more than whites). They will not discriminate against homosexuals (who commit suicide and violence to one another more than straights). What a travesty. 6. Unions. The democrat national convention in 2012 will be held in Charlotte, NC. The problem is that democrats only do business with union shops and NC is a right to work state. Local businesses in Charlotte are being denied the ability to support the convention – one of the largest business opportunities in decades in NC – unless they organize. Due to the lack of union businesses in NC, democrats have to import out of state union droids to provide services and support for the convention, something which is not going down well at all for the locals. Red State has been all over this. Keep watching as it progresses, as there will be a LOT of hard feelings as they work up to the convention and hold it. http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/11/06/dnc-union-favoritism-forcing-furloughs-of-charlottes-non-union-hotel-workers/ More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. 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