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    GOP official says his party’s full of bigots!

    GOP official says his party’s full of bigots!

    2:30 PM 04/08/2014
    Mickey Kaus

    Finesse? Not Since Jefferson Dined Alone … : A man named Shaun Kenney was recently named Executive Director of the Virginia Republican party. Here is a post of his from the blog, Bearing Drift. In it he argues that “Conservatives have a moral duty to drive out nativism once and for all.” It becomes clear by the end of the post that when he says “nativist” he’s including more or less everyone in the party who opposes “comprehensive immigration reform.”

    “There are 12 million people in the United States today who want a better lives for themselves and their families, whose only crime was that they came to America to do it.
    ‘”The nativists have a very simple solution: apprehend all 12 million of them, boxcar them back to their point of origin, and drive them out as so many locusts. …
    ‘”he American conservative movement has driven out ideologies from our camp once before. We drove out the progressives and the America First movement in the 1940s. We did it again with the John Birch Society in the 1960s. We did it once again with the anarchists in the 1980s. Every time we have purged the ranks of poison, we have emerged stronger …
    “It’s time to clean house.
    ‘”You will hear a lot of talk in the coming months about immigration reform. In it will be included guest worker programs, documented worker status, real border enforcement that doesn’t require walls, and a sound program that takes an antiquated immigration system and brings it into the 21st century. That’s not amnesty, that’s reform.

    “Conservatives embrace the idea of more Americans coming into this country to work hard and prosper.
    “Nativists reject Pedro. …
    “Drive em out, ladies and gentlemen. …”

    I’m a Democrat, so I can’t be too offended by this, though there are plenty of Virgina Republicans who might be. If the state GOP wants to empower this sophomoric sneerer slanderer to insult their core voters with language reminiscent of Daily Kos on a bad day, that is the state GOP’s problem. But maybe the press should drop the <acronym title="Google Page Ranking"><acronym title="Google Page Ranking"><acronym title="Google Page Ranking">PR</acronym></acronym></acronym> that says Kenney got the job because he’s “worked well with both sides.” Or, in his own words describing his suitability for the post:

    “It takes a little bit of finesse … and generally being tolerated by all side to be an effective executive director. The executive director is kind of like the first diplomat.”

    If Kenney is the Virginia GOP establishment’s** idea of a diplomat, it should be an interesting few years. Or weeks. …

    P.S.: Attempts to reach Kenney by phone and email were unsuccessful.
    __________
    **–Kenney seems to be an Ed Gillespie person. Gillespie is running for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Democrat Mark Warner. He has long been a strategic squish on amnesty, though not necessarily amnesty that ends in citizenship. Does Gillespie share Kenney’s cheesy Manichean view of the opposition?

    http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/08/go...ll-of-racists/


    This man is getting paid by the Republicans. Lost my vote.

    From Shaun Kenney.
    NATIVISM VS. CONSERVATISM
    POLICYPOLITICS


    This one has been building up for some time, only now having tipped the scales becausethis article was pushed to me by a friend:

    Liberals incessantly harp on the fate of unsuspecting American Indians being infected with European maladies, yet that outrage doesn’t jibe with their insistence that amnesty be granted to illegal aliens, some of whom carry diseases eradicated long ago from North America.

    In short, if you are in favor of an immigration solution (and all solutions are branded with a scarlet A) then you are simply in favor of trafficking all sorts of gross disease as so many cockroaches into our beloved ‘Murica:

    Do amnesty advocates care that blood tainted with malaria, a disease eradicated from the USA back in the 1940s, was deemed responsible for outbreaks in California, New Jersey, NYC, and Texas?

    How about Asian illegals introducing dengue fever, a viral disease previously unknown in the US, as well as hemorrhagic dengue fever, which is fatal if untreated?

    Could it be that amnesty advocates feel that, as part of the retribution for white European ancestors contaminating America’s indigenous people, hundreds of years later it’s acceptable that innocent children require lifesaving platelet transfusions to cure dengue fever?

    So when I was asked about this article, I had something in the memory banks. This sort of nativist swill has been going around for decades, and frankly it’s plagued the conservative movement long enough. Of course, that really upset a good friend of mine when I fought fire with fire… but I think it’s time we, in Virginia, start having this conversation in earnest once again.

    Should the nativists be welcomed in the GOP? Do conservatives have a moral duty to drive them out of the party?

    There are 12 million people in the United States today who want a better lives for themselves and their families, whose only crime was that they came to America to do it.

    The nativists have a very simple solution: apprehend all 12 million of them, boxcar them back to their point of origin, and drive them out as so many locusts. One recent article from the UK Economist outlined that simply warehousing that many people today costs about $5,000 per apprehension. That’s right — for bedding alone while ICE determines their legal status and where to ship them, it would cost the American taxpayer $6 billion just to house and feed 12 million immigrants.

    …and that’s not including the cost of law enforcement, the judicial system, the cost of transport, and the like.

    Here’s another tricky thing that nativists don’t mention in their rush to rescue Massive Resistance from the ashes of history: how precisely do you apprehend 12 million people? Checkpoints? Papers, papers please? Searches? NSA metadata? What civil liberties are we willing to surrender in order to perform all this D&E? Does the nativist opinion of a FEMA camp change if they turn into concentration camps for undocumented immigrants?

    (1) The nativists have no home in the modern Republican Party. A small history lesson — the Republican Party is the party that ended slavery, that fought Jim Crow, that passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1950s and ushered in the civil rights era. The Republican Party is the party that is fighting against welfare, fighting against the entitlement system, fighting for individual freedom. The Republican Party is the party that embraces the single-largest non-violent civil rights protest in our nation’s history — the pro-life movement. The Republican Party is the party that destroyed Soviet Communism. The Republican Party is the party that fought for free goods and free trade. On the right side of history, you will find the GOP at every turn.

    These clowns? These Know Nothings?

    …have no place in our history.

    They have no place in the history of a Free America.

    They deserve nothing more than a footnote to the ignorance that liberty rightly stamps out.

    (2) Conservatives have a moral duty to drive out nativism once and for all.
    Free markets, free speech, and a free society — that is the cornerstone of American conservatism. We are a county that tears down walls, not one that builds them. The American conservative movement has driven out ideologies from our camp once before. We drove out the progressives and the America First movement in the 1940s. We did it again with the John Birch Society in the 1960s. We did it once again with the anarchists in the 1980s. Every time we have purged the ranks of poison, we have emerged stronger, producing leadership such as Eisenhower, Goldwater, and Reagan.

    It’s time to clean house.

    You will hear a lot of talk in the coming months about immigration reform. In it will be included guest worker programs, documented worker status, real border enforcement that doesn’t require walls, and a sound program that takes an antiquated immigration system and brings it into the 21st century. That’s not amnesty, that’s reform.

    Conservatives embrace the idea of more Americans coming into this country to work hard and prosper.

    Nativists reject Pedro.

    The Republican Party has a duty to preserve what is ennobling about the American experiment. A modern day version of Operation Wetback with jackboots and checkpoints designed to boxcar 8-20 million people back “their point of origin” (read: Mexico) is obtuse at best and horribly violent to our civil liberties at worse. Conservatives are smarter than this, and America deserve better than nativist hate.

    Drive ‘em out, ladies and gentlemen. Generations are watching.
    http://bearingdrift.com/2014/02/11/n...-conservatism/




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    “Conservatives have a moral duty to drive out nativism once and for all.”
    Sounds like another Chamber of Commerce flunky to me. What conservatives must do his drive out RINO's before they destroy our country. If I don't like Rino's is that nativism, well perhaps because they don't love America only the money.
    I'm old with many opinions few solutions.

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    Virginia GOP executive director praised amnesty, slammed fellow Republicans for being

    Virginia GOP executive director praised amnesty, slammed fellow Republicans for being scared of ‘The Other’ in office meeting [video]


    Patrick Howley 4:43 PM 04/08/2014
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    Newly minted Virginia Republican executive director Shaun Kenney said that immigration reform is the right thing to do, and criticized people opposed to amnesty as being uncomfortable with “the Other.”

    Kennedy made the remarks in a meeting this month with amnesty advocates, video footage of which was obtained by The Daily Caller. The meeting is believed to have included Eliseo Medina,former secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), who previously argued that immigration reform will help Democratic electoral chances.



    “And I think that we understand too that there’s a lot of people that are afraid, of you. Not for any reason that they ought to be but because you’re just not somebody, you’re just not people that they’ve ever had an opportunity to sit down and encounter, to talk to… A lot of people concern themselves with the Other, and it’s not a comfortable thing to have dialogue, and it’s not a comfortable thing to have that encounter with the Other,” Kenney said on the issue of immigration reform.

    “This is not an issue of Right or Left, it’s an issue of right and wrong, agreed? [murmurs of agreement from audience] … But to have the courage to come down here and do that, and make whats on your hearts and on your minds known, that’s exactly what this world needs now. And that’s exactly, if we’re going to have any sort of solution on immigration policy that is moral, that is just, that honors the sacrifices not just of our family and friends and our forefathers but what America ought to be, you’ve done a small part here today. I can’t thank you enough for coming here today, I really can’t, and I mean that sincerely. I’m not just saying that like some slick politician….”

    “And understand this- I would like to think at the end of the day when there’s a solution for immigration that the Republican motive for that is not vote-harvesting. It shouldn’t be because ‘oh, we see a growing demographic here and a shrinking demographic there, and if we choose the right side then this demographic will magically come over to our side and we’ll win elections for the next 20 years.’ That shouldn’t motivate us, and I don’t think that’s our mental calculus at the end of the day.”

    “If we do this simply because we’re gathering votes, that’s the wrong motive, wrong motive. Let’s do it because it’s the right thing to do. Let’s do it because it’s moral and just and builds a better America. Not because we’re doing short-term gain for a demographic and patting them on the head and sending them on their way. Those are the worst sorts of politics, and hopefully everyone in this room is tired of it, and we’ll carry that forward as well,” Kenney said.

    Kenney previously advocated for immigration reform on his blog. Kenney’s appointment this month to the executive director position was greeted enthusiastically by conservatives.

    “The nativists have no home in the modern Republican Party,” he wrote in a February blog post on his website BearingDrift.com. ”They have no place in the history of a Free America… They deserve nothing more than a footnote to the ignorance that liberty rightly stamps out… Conservatives are smarter than this, and America deserve better than nativist hate. Drive ‘em out, ladies and gentlemen. Generations are watching.”

    SEIU’s Medina, whom Kenney thanked for joining him, previously said that immigration will help Democrats in a video also obtained by The Daily Caller.

    If “we reform the immigration laws, it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters… if we get 8 million new voters… we will create a governing coalition for the long-term,” Medina said at a 2010 conference.



    http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/08/vi...meeting-video/
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    Virginia GOP official that dissed anti-amnesty Republicans skips Laura Ingraham radio

    11:44 PM 04/10/2014
    Patrick Howley
    The Daily Caller

    Virginia Republican Party executive director Shaun Kenney was a “no show” to conservative host Laura Ingraham’s radio program Thursday.

    Ingraham was prepared to question Kenney about his statements that conservatives who oppose amnesty are afraid of “The Other” and that “nativists” should be driven out of the Republican party. Kenney made the statements in an office meeting that included former SEIU secretary-treasurer Eliseo Medina, according to video footage published Tuesday by The Daily Caller, and on his personal blog.


    (PHOTO: Laura Ingraham)

    “And I think that we understand too that there’s a lot of people that are afraid, of you. Not for any reason that they ought to be but because you’re just not somebody, you’re just not people that they’ve ever had an opportunity to sit down and encounter, to talk to… A lot of people concern themselves with the Other, and it’s not a comfortable thing to have dialogue, and it’s not a comfortable thing to have that encounter with the Other,” Kenney said on the issue of immigration reform, according to the video.

    Kenney also added that neither party should support immigration reform simply for “vote-harvesting” purposes, though SEIU official Eliseo Medina, present at the meeting with Kenney, previously pitched immigration reform in a speech by stating that it would help Democratic chances.

    “The nativists have no home in the modern Republican Party,” Kenney wrote in a February blog post on his website BearingDrift.com. ”They have no place in the history of a Free America… They deserve nothing more than a footnote to the ignorance that liberty rightly stamps out… Conservatives are smarter than this, and America deserve better than nativist hate. Drive ‘em out, ladies and gentlemen. Generations are watching.”

    http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/10/vi...am-radio-show/
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    EXCLUSIVE: CANTOR CHALLENGER CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION OF NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF VIRGINIA



    by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY
    16 Apr 2014

    David Brat, the long-shot challenger to Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) in Virginia's 7th Congressional District, is demanding an investigation into the new executive director of the Virginia Republican party, Shaun Kenney, after it was revealed Kenney's consulting firm is now on Cantor's payroll.

    "If Eric Cantor's campaign or any of his affiliates has hired Shaun Kenney’s consulting firm, any pretense of fairness in the upcoming Seventh District Congressional Race is diminished," Brat wrote in a letter to Pat Mullins, chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia (RPVA).

    Brat told PJ Media Tuesday he wanted an investigation into the matter, but the letter, sent Wednesday, represents a formal demand to the state party.

    On Monday, a posting by a contributor at the blog Kenney founded, Bearing Drift, revealedthat a consulting firm Kenney co-founded with his brother Jason, K6 Consulting, recently landed Cantor as a client, igniting a firestorm of controversy within Virginia's Tea Party community.

    On Tuesday, Kenney told Breitbart News "My brother Jason advises for the Cantor campaign, absolutely. Been very open about that."

    Kenney added "I have a very strong reputation in Virginia for being able to bridge the gap between Tea Party and establishment Republicans. I am extremely proud of the work we have done for Majority Leader Eric Cantor and former Governor George Allen, as well as our Tea Party stalwarts such as Pete Snyder, Curtis Colgate, and E.W. Jackson -- among others."

    Brat's letter asks for an investigation and review of ties between K6 and Cantor, but does not call for Kenney's resignation.

    "How long has this relationship existed, and is there a relationship with Young Guns PAC or any other Cantor affiliated political committees?" Brat asked.

    "If so," Brat continued, "for how long have these relationships existed, do these relationships continue, is Mr. Kenney still involved in any way with his consulting firm, does he profit in any way from that firm’s business, or does he do any work of any sort that contributes to the profitability and branding of that firm?"

    "These unanswered questions are why we are calling on you as Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia to investigate these issues thoroughly and impartially," Brat stated in the letter. "We ask for an independent investigation into the relationship between Shaun Kenney, K6 Consulting Group, Eric Cantor, and the Republican Party of Virginia. The ethical and legal findings should be made public as soon as possible."

    Brat also raised questions about whether the arrangement violates party rules, which prohibit material financial interests that "would, or reasonably could, affect a Responsible Person’s or family member’s judgment with respect to transactions in which the Party is involved."

    Kenney did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Brat's letter.

    A review of records at the web site of Virginia's State Corporation Commission indicates that Shaun Kenney's wife, Melissa Kenney, is the registered agent for K6 Consulting Group, a limited liability company.

    Breitbart previously reported that Kenney's appointment came at a critical time for the party, with no major statewide political office held by a Republican and a bitter civil war brewing at the county level between Tea Party activists and establishment Republicans.

    "It takes a little bit of finesse, twenty years of experience with the party, and generally being tolerated by all side to be an effective executive director," he told Breitbart News on April 3. "The executive director is kind of like the first diplomat. You listen to all sides, give them the truth, and they generally respect that."

    But a series of missteps on Kenney's parts has left some Tea Party activists wondering publicly if the conventions and primaries can be run in a fair and unbiased manner under his leadership.

    First came reports of a February blog post in which he referred to opponents of illegal immigration as "nativists" and called for their purging from the party. Then, in his first week on the job, Kenney invited representatives of the pro-amnesty immigration lobby in for a video coffee clatch at RPVA headquarters.

    Now the Cantor revelation, which has incensed some on the right.

    Larry Nordvig of the Richmond Tea Party told Breitbart News on Wednesday "[i]n order to work with Kenney going forward, Tea Party conservatives would need to see a track record of fairness and honesty." According to Nordvig, "that requires the one thing the GOP doesn't have—time! The Republican Party of Virginia needs to 'right the ship', and must do so quickly!"

    "Party dysfunction has already resulted in devastating state-wide losses," Nordvig added. "The GOP civil war between the true conservatives and the Party ‘establishment’ political elites, like Cantor and Kenney, will not be over until one side devours the other, or the right person can be found to somehow bridge the gap between the two."

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...ty-of-Virginia

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