(Tallahassee, Florida) – The Florida Conservative News has awarded it’s first “Biased Blogging Award” to Central Florida attorney and gadfly, Sarah Rumpf. Rumpf, as you may recall, ran Democrat State Attorney Lawson Lamar’s campaign and was the subject of numerous news reports of missteps and strategic mistakes, so many in fact, that the supportive Orlando Sentinel even editorialized about what a disastrous campaign the Lamar campaign had become.

According to the conservative news operation, a lot of bloggers out there represent themselves as unbiased, just reporting “the facts,” and very seldom do they disclose their true motivations.

Florida Conservative News investigated and discovered that Rumpf had lied (they called it “fibbing”) about being paid by the Hasner campaign to promote his lackluster effort.

Adam Hasner, one of five candidates for the GOP nomination for the US Senate, has been fluctuating wildly between 2 and 4% of the GOP vote.

Rumpf is a self-proclaimed blogger and supports Adam Hasner, as she stated on April 7, 2011 on Twitter and her personal blog.

Rumpf uses her forum to repeatedly make negative and untrue comments about other US Senate candidates, with a majority of her vitriol directed toward US Army Col. Mike McCalister and Crist appointee to the US Senate, Crist former Chief of Staff, George LeMieux. As the FCN states in their article, “Everyone has a right to comment about politics online, and we don’t fault Ms. Rumpf for sharing her opinions.” FCN points out that on August 25th, Rumpf reflecting on prior untrue attack posts stating that Col. Mike McCalister was tied to conservative anti-tax leader Doug Guetzloe and responding to Guetzloe and others that she was on the Hasner payroll, Rumpf stated: “I’m not on Hasner payroll.”

This was posted via Twitter and on her blog – shown here:

The Florida Conservative News states, “Boy, Ms. Rumpf must have a very short memory because her company, Caffeinated Campaigns, was paid $549 on August 24, 2011 — the day before her comments above — by the Adam Hasner campaign for “Fundraising Consulting.” Ms. Rumpf is the owner of Caffeinated Campaigns.

Hasner’s finance report to the Federal Elections Commission shows the payment to Rumpf:

The Florida Conservative News states: To sum up, Ms. Rumpf expressly fibbed about her relationship with the Hasner campaign. She stated on August 25th that she was not on the Hasner payroll, but had been paid $549 on August 24th, the day before. For that, she is one of our Biased Blog Award Winners.

The Florida Tea Party congratulates Herman Cain on his extraordinary victory in the Presidency 5 Florida Straw Poll.  Mr. Cain won by an unprecedented margin, finished far ahead of the number two and three candidates, combined and brought remarkable energy and competition to the Florida Straw Poll.   It is important to note that in the previous “Presidency” Florida straw polls the winner of the straw poll has gone on to win the Florida primary, and become the GOP nominee.

In an example of grace, and professionalism, Mr. Cain waited for the results, and then walked the concourse of the Orange County Convention Center, thanking attendees for their support, before departing.  Supporters and well-wishers lined the hallways to congratulate the Georgia businessman for his historic victory.

Speaking via video, from his campaign bus, Mr. Cain responded to his victory, saying, “This is a big thank you to our supporters, and our staff. If not for the support, garnered all over Florida and the United States, this wouldn’t have been possible. Thank you. Without your support, and the hard work of our dedicated staff, we couldn’t have done this. The Herman Cain train is picking up steam.”

Mr. Cain, fresh from his victory will headline the Guetzloe Report on the Phoenix Network -

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The Rule of Law is a fundamental principle that our country was founded on. The rule of law respects us as equals. It allows us to organize our lives, plan our futures, and resolve disputes in a rational way. In our country laws are created by elected representatives through a system of checks and balances. This method was created so that the law makers were accountable to the people. Make bad laws and get voted out of office.

Being held accountable for the laws you vote for while a member of congress puts extreme limits on what representative is willing to vote for. Over the years this has proved annoying for Congressmen, Senators, and the President who may want to enact laws that the people don’t want. In the last election we saw the result of congress passing many laws, including a Healthcare bill, that the people clearly didn’t want; the largest single change in the House of Representatives about 75 years. This is a good thing as it allows the people to hold their elected representatives accountable. To get around voting for unpopular laws, congress has delegate it’s law making authority to bureaucrats. This allows unpopular laws, termed regulations, to be enacted without the elected official having to be held accountable for the creation of a new law the people don’t want. Worse yet this allows large corporations to force laws that will benefit the large corporation at the expense of the people without having to have a new law passed.

Case in point: ABC’s Jonathan Karl Reported that The Federal Highway Administration (FHA) is ordering all local governments — from the tiniest towns to the largest cities — to go out and buy new street signs. 3M one of the few makers of reflective sign material successfully lobbied the FHA to change the regulations to include:

• Whenever street name signs are changed for any reason, they can no longer be in ALL CAPS.
• Increase the size of the letters on street signs from the current 4 inches to 6 inches on all roads with speed limits over 25 miles per hour by January 2012.
• Install signs with new reflective letters more visible at night by January 2018.

In Dinwiddie County, Virginia — with lots of roads but not many people — the cost comes to about $10 for every man, woman and child.

“The money is better spent on education, or the sheriff’s department or on public safety than something like that,” said Harrison Moody, chairman of the Dinwiddie Board of Supervisors.

Many local residents in Dinwiddie say their current street signs work just fine, and they see no reason to change them.

“There are a lot of people out there that are hungry,” said Dinwiddie resident Thomas Davis. “Why spend [money] on street signs when everybody can read a street sign or, if you don’t know where you’re going, get a GPS.”

This is a prime example of Too Much Government, and the mentality of ruling elite who think they know what is best for everybody. Don’t think this is Obama or Democrat bashing. These changes to the law were originally started under Bush. Changes in bureaucratic regulations are changes in laws, laws should have to voted on by the Senate, House, and signed by the President. We have allowed our elected officials to horribly overstep their bounds and responsibilities, creating institutions that can create laws, tax the public, and limit individual liberty without being held accountable to the voter.

Who knows better how local dollars should be spent, the federal government or local government? This is a case where the federal government is forcing local government to spend money they don’t have on things that may be good, but take away from much more urgent needs. In Milwaukee this will cost the cash-strapped city nearly $2 million — double the city’s entire annual for traffic control.

This is not an example of the Rule of Law, but an example of am unaccountable bureaucratic dictate. What this change in the law amounts to, is a transfer of wealth from the citizens to 3M. This is a typical and predictable unintended consequence of liberal ideology trying to make everybody “safer” for their own good. The idea that because people might vote out a representative who makes an unpopular vote or decision, it is necessary to create bureaucracies to insulate elected officials is now the preferred method of liberal ruling elites to circumvent the will of the people. The FHA mandates to change signage is an example of an unfunded, unaccountable mandate of elitist big government working with elitist big business to take your money and avoid being held accountable.

What would you tell your elected representative if he/she came back from Washington having voted to force your local town to change and update all its signs during these hard economic times?

Vegetable Garden

Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.

“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.” ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower

It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food.

Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit from it, but Monsanto’s Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designed it and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer the agency it would create — without judicial review — if it passes. S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food and farming.
History

In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced HACCP (Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Points) purportedly to deal with contamination in the meat industry. Clinton’s HACCP delighted the offending corporate (World Trade Organization “WTO”) meat packers since it allowed them to inspect themselves, eliminated thousands of local food processors (with no history of contamination), and centralized meat into their control. Monsanto promoted HACCP.

In 2008, Hillary Clinton, urged a powerful centralized food safety agency as part of her campaign for president. Her advisor was Mark Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller*, a giant PR firm representing Monsanto. Clinton lost, but Clinton friends such as Rosa DeLauro, whose husband’s firm lists Monsanto as a progressive client and globalization as an area of expertise, introduced early versions of S 510.
S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and human survival grounds.

1. It puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, in the event of contamination or an ill-defined emergency. It resembles the Kissinger Plan.

2. It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security. It would end the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US law under perfect protection. Instead, S 510 says:

COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.

Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party.

3. It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.” Since under that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, “entry of food into the US” covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and “entering into” it by virtue of being produced.

4. It imposes Codex Alimentarius on the US, a global system of control over food. It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements. Its bizarre history and its expected impact in limiting access to adequate nutrition (while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides, hormones, irradiation of food, etc.) threatens all safe and organic food and health itself, since the world knows now it needs vitamins to survive, not just to treat illnesses.

5. It would remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other multinationals, threatening US security. See Seeds – How to criminalize them, for more details.

6. It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens all small farmers and ranchers raising animals. The UN is participating through the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of animals and without proof of disease. Biodiversity in farm animals is being wiped out to substitute genetically engineered animals on which corporations hold patents. Animal diseases can be falsely declared. S 510 includes the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), despite its corrupt involvement in the H1N1 scandal, which is now said to have been concocted by the corporations.

7. It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP did to meat production – put it in corporate hands and worsen food safety.

8. It deconstructs what is left of the American economy. It takes agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out of the hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the enforcer. The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and connected occupations would be eliminated.

9. It would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs. This would industrialize every farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming, greatly increase global warming from increased use of oil-based products and long-distance delivery of foods, and make food even more unsafe. The five items listed — the Five Pillars of Food Safety — are precisely the items in the food supply which are the primary source of its danger.

10. It uses food crimes as the entry into police state power and control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be imposed; postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied. It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review. It is (similar to C-6 in Canada) the end of Rule of Law in the US.

Marco Rubio

WASHINGTON — On the same day in June that the U.S. House of Representatives passed expansive Wall Street reforms, an influential hedge fund manager who strongly opposed the legislation was holding a fundraiser in his Manhattan apartment for Marco Rubio.

Rubio was in Miami but collected thousands of dollars for his U.S. Senate campaign that day, and people associated with the hedge fund contributed $117,000 overall as his long-shot bid took off.

Now as Rubio and other newly elected Republicans take office, the financial industry is depending on their clout to undo some of the regulations.

The same is true for the health care industry that poured millions into candidates like Rubio who pledged to “repeal and replace” the landmark legislation Congress approved this year.

Elected to great fanfare, Rubio, 39, will be one of the most-watched lawmakers in Washington. A review of the roughly $20 million he collected provides a window into what issues he could champion — and who may have his ear.

Rubio said no person or cause has undue influence and the campaign was a grass roots effort, drawing $7 million in small donations from regular people. “I’ve always told people they buy into our agenda, we don’t buy into theirs,” he said. “We tell people where we stand on the issues, and if people want to help us get elected, with some exceptions, we’re willing to accept their help.”

Conservative donors and interest groups such as the Club for Growth contributed heavily, as did the securities and investment sector with nearly $600,000.

The health care industry gave over $270,000. Real estate interests gave $350,000, according to data collated by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

The oil and gas industry, which has been fighting to drill in the waters off Florida, gave the pro-drilling Rubio at least $109,000.

Taken together, his financing shows a politician with strong grass roots support, but also one closely aligned with the establishment GOP and the hard-line posture that drove the election.

“If you’re looking for him reaching across party lines hither and yon, you are probably expecting too much,” said Dave Levinthal, spokesman for the Center for Responsive Politics.

His numbers, while sizable, are only part of the story.

Outside groups spent a record amount this election and Rubio got more than $2.5 million from GOP-leaning groups. His largest backer overall was Karl Rove’s American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, which invested $1.9 million in ads attacking Rubio’s rival, Gov. Charlie Crist.

The groups, which do not disclose their donors, are pressing for tougher illegal immigration laws and to prevent Democrats from letting some tax cuts expire.

Rubio emphasized the grass roots. Through Election Day, he took in more than $7 million in donations of $200 or less — 36 percent of the $19,717,639.65 collected since the campaign began in May 2009.

Rubio started out the traditional way, focusing on big donors. But almost all the Republican players were backing Crist, long seen as a shoo-in for the Senate seat. July 2009 campaign finance reports showed Crist raised $4.3 million to Rubio’s $340,000. Rubio considered running for state attorney general.

Instead, he began an aggressive small donor campaign and it worked in waves, cultivating an outsider image. Rubio’s Federal Election Commission filings shows page after page of $1, $5, $10, $50 and $100 contributions from Florida and beyond.

“I love Marco Rubio. He is the future of the Republican Party,” said Bernadette Zgorski of Churchville, Md., a tea party activist who gave Rubio $50. She said it was the first time she ever contributed to a candidate.

One man in the Panhandle showed up to an event with a box full of wrapped coins, $70 worth.

“He did not become the Republican nominee and win this race because of the traditional large special interests,” said Rubio fundraiser Ana Navarro. “We all know where they were a year ago, they were all fighting Marco Rubio. That’s one of the beauties about Marco, is that he is fairly free. He’s not particularly indebted to special interests.”

Special interests did start to pay attention when Rubio began to erase Crist’s lead, however.

By the time of the fundraiser in Manhattan, Crist had left the GOP, knowing he would lose the primary, to run as an independent. Rubio’s fundraising soared. He posted record numbers for Florida — $4.5 million in the second quarter of 2010 and $5 million in the third.

People affiliated with Elliott Management, the $17 billion hedge fund run by Paul Singer, were Rubio’s second highest contributors, with $117,000. Singer gave to many Republicans (the June fundraiser was for several candidates), hoping to fight what he deemed overreaching policies of Democratic financial reform.

Rubio generally agrees that some of the restrictions are burdensome, a spokesman said.

Rubio, in all, got at least $600,000 from securities, investment, financing and banking interests, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tallied reports through Oct. 13.

Wall Street had been contributing to Democrats, who held the White House and Congress after 2008. But while the reforms were weakened somewhat, what passed was still substantial.

Rubio’s top donor was the conservative activist group Club for Growth, with $328,500. Group spokesman Mike Connolly said it liked Rubio’s message of fiscal discipline and smaller government. After the election, Rubio called to thank them.

“We have very high hopes for him,” Connolly said, calling Rubio “a principled leader.”

Under the category “industry: Republican/conservative,” Rubio took in $965,000, second only to retirees who gave $1.5 million, many of them uneasy with changes in Washington.

Rubio got at least $26,000 from people associated with Koch Industries, an oil giant run by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch who have criticized the health care overhaul and question climate change.

Florida business — including Flo-Sun, a sugar company run by the Fanjul family — also helped Rubio. People associated with Publix Supermarkets gave over $11,000. Rubio also got money from South Florida fuel distributor Max Alvarez, who sought favors from Rubio when he was a state legislator.

In Washington, Rubio said federal spending, tax policy and national security will top his agenda.

“There’s a lot of other issues this institution deals with and I want to learn about them and be informed,” he said. “But ultimately we’re going to do what we think is right by the people who elected us.”

Marco Rubio

Miami, FL – Recognizing the importance of the youth vote, the Marco Rubio for U.S. Senate campaign today launched its college campus organizational drive to recruit college students for on-campus campaigning, summer volunteering and voter outreach efforts.  As part of this launch, the campaign announced its 31 Florida college coordinators, who will focus on recruiting supporters, volunteers and interns for the campaign during the final weeks of the spring semester.

The campaign also announced that Rubio will hold his first major statewide college rally on Wednesday, April 14 at the University of Florida in Gainesville.  The event will be broadcast via streaming video to Marco Rubio for U.S. Senate college groups across the state.

“College students are excited about Marco Rubio’s candidacy and drawn to his message of ensuring their generation inherits a secure and prosperous America,” said Rubio for Senate spokesman Alex Burgos.  “Through our campus recruiting drive, college students will play a key role in making sure that, by the time they return for the fall semester, Marco will be the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate and heading to victory in November.”

“Having a strong presence on Florida’s college campuses is an essential part of communicating Marco’s message and achieving our goals,” Burgos added.  “Marco and his campaign are honored to have students across the state stand with him and stand for the conservative principles that will get America back on a limited government, free market track.”

RUBIO FOR SENATE COLLEGE COORDINATORS

• Ave Maria University: Devin Mace
• Barry University: Sara Quinn
• Broward College: Johann Berenguer
• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University: Mike Carkin
• Florida Atlantic University: James Shackleford
• Florida Gulf Coast University: Jason Boswell
• Florida International University: Johnathan De La Torre
• Flagler College: Bethany Maddox
• Florida State College at Jacksonville: Tyler Smith
• Florida State University: Juan Montalvo
• Indian River State College: Mike Waters
• Jacksonville University: Mike Kerekes
• Lake-Sumter Community College: Tim Mitchum
• Miami-Dade College: Erwin Meinhardt
• Palm Beach Atlantic University: Adam McKinney
• Pasco-Hernando Community College: Jessica Griffin
• Rollins College: Christina Benitez
• Santa Fe College: Monica Gordon
• Southeastern University: Dustin Keeling
• St. Leo University: Nick Bliesner
• St. Petersburg College: Jake Holehouse
• Stetson University: Brooke Nattkemper
• Tallahassee Community College: Miguel Gonzalez
• University of Central Florida: Lauren Edwards
• University of Florida: Josh Mize
• University of North Florida: Hampton Ray
• University of Miami: Vincent Foster
• University of Tampa: Shane Twaddell
• University of South Florida: Thomas Bell
• University of West Florida: Meagan Enderson
• Valencia Community College: John Steuber

Charlie Crist & Marco Rubio

Miami, FL – With the first 2010 U.S. Senate Republican primary debate scheduled for this Sunday on FOX News Sunday, the Marco Rubio for U.S. Senate campaign today questioned which Charlie Crist will show up.

In a new video series launched today, Rubio for Senate provides Floridians with flashbacks to the first time Crist ran for U.S. Senate – in 1998 against Sen. Bob Graham – and debated before the legendary Tim Russert.

As voters will see, there are plenty of reasons to wonder: which Charlie Crist will show up and what positions will he change in order to win this Sunday?

WATCH THE VIDEO

“One of the advantages of perpetually running for political office is that Charlie Crist heads into this Sunday’s debate as a five-time statewide candidate with lots of debate experience,” said Rubio for Senate spokesman Alex Burgos.  “Charlie Crist is a slick politician and debater who will say and do anything to score a win.  In addition, he has also made several appearances on Sunday shows, including his most recent one in which he vigorously promoted the failed $787 billion stimulus.

“As these flashbacks will show, a lot has changed since the last time Charlie Crist ran for U.S. Senate, including his positions on a host of issues, though his willingness to say and do anything to get elected is still alive and well,” Burgos added.  “However, Charlie Crist’s biggest challenge this Sunday will be to reconcile his past positions with today’s desperate need to say whatever he thinks is necessary to get elected.”

FACTS ABOUT SUNDAY’S DEBATE

• This is Marco’s first statewide campaign.

• This is Crist’s fifth statewide campaign.  It is also the second time he has run for U.S. Senate.

• This is Marco’s first campaign debate ever.

• Crist has participated in numerous debates – in both primary and general elections for U.S. Senate, Education Commissioner, Attorney General, Governor and now U.S. Senate again.

• This is Marco’s first appearance on a nationally televised Sunday show.

• Crist has been a Sunday show guest before.  In his last memorable Sunday show appearance, Crist defended the stimulus on Meet The Press.

Charlie Crist & Marco Rubio

Marco Rubio’s latest campaign email hits Governor Crist on “Trust”.  It’s titled Oh, you can trust Charlie Crst…   Snip it of email is below

“Miami, FL – Lately, Governor Charlie Crist has seized on a new campaign buzz word: “trust,” which U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio has long insisted is what this election is all about – who Floridians can trust to go to Washington, stand up to the Obama-Reid-Pelosi agenda, and offer a clear alternative.

According to the Miami Herald, “Crist used the loaded word at least a dozen times in a 10-minute speech at a breakfast in Miami hosted by the Christian Family Coalition, an offshoot of the well-known Christian Coalition.” (Miami Herald, 2/27/10)

“Florida voters can trust Charlie Crist alright…to raise taxes, embrace Barack Obama on the stimulus and health care, and be completely untrustworthy on mainstream Republican values,” said Rubio for Senate spokesman Alex Burgos.  “Marco Rubio has said all along this race is about trust – it’s about who Floridians trust to go to Washington, stand up on principle to the current misguided agenda, and offer a clear alternative.

“Marco’s record and deeds prove he’s the only one in this race who can be trusted to do this, whereas Charlie Crist has proven time and time again he can only be trusted to stand with the big government, big spending agenda that is threatening America’s future.”

With Rubio in the center of Credit Card Gate one has to wonder about voters “TRUSTING” him as well.  Several sources pointed out that Rubio has other purchases that were made but put on other RPOF AMEX cardholder’s card.

While Speaker of the House Rubio had many opportunities to introduce legislation curtailing illegal immigration yet never did.  As for Rubio’s statement that voters can trust Crist to raise taxes and embrace the stimulus, isn’t this the pot calling the kettle black?  Rubio, you did after all say that you would accept stimulus funds as well or did you forget this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNg4gvWtAE8

When it comes to trusting Rubio or Crist voters are going to be left holding the bag.  At least Bob Smith is shooting straight these days and not double-talking.