Mark Towner's Spyglass Spots: Fred Thompson Tries Retail Politics

Fred Thompson Tries Retail Politics
By PHILIP ELLIOTT – 8 hours ago

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson left a trail of half-empty coffee cups and barely sipped Diet Pepsis on Sunday as he jumped into the kind of person-to-person political campaigning that voters here demand.

On his first swing across New Hampshire as a declared candidate, Thompson visited bars and restaurants where voters watched football and drank beer. Some asked about immigration, the economy and politics.

He even signed a magazine that featured him on the cover with the headline, "Lazy Like a Fox."
"I'm going to lose more weight on this thing. I'll never get close enough to food to eat it," the former Tennessee senator joked with the throng of reporters and photographers chasing him.

Thompson faces some obstacles in states that vote early in the presidential primary process, like New Hampshire. His rivals have spent considerable time and money building organizations here and meeting with voters as they like it — one on one and in small groups.
He pledged Sunday to play catch-up.

Full Story http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h_WbTz_B31JT1ZvRnSCTBtQsDUwQ

JM Bell Jumps in the Mix

Mark Towner - Loudly Babbles and Blusters Once More
Posted in September 8th, 2007
by JM Bell in dementia, GOP asshats, GOP Shill

>>>>>JM I would have thought you would have stayed out of this, but it appears you are speaking for the liar and thief Jesse Harris since he will not speak for himself.

Marky Mark Towner is on another rant jag. He, once again, reloaded up his database of poached email addresses and names, sent out another list grab, and got caught with his security practically non-existent.

>>>(You know better JM)

His 5,800 email addresses and names were wide open for anyone else to steal, including a good chunk of personal information that, again, leads to the opinion that he either swiped it from the GOP lists, swiped it from the Utah Policy Daily and/or bought it.

>>>Steal, exactly JM what I was saying about Jesse and the other Bloggers. I will out you all when the time is right. The campaigns that "Stole the edited list" filled with gotcha email addresses that only I know about will blow several political campaigns (mostly democrat) right out of the water.

Jesse Harris over at Coolest Family Ever (which, even with that name, doesn’t talk about my family at all) caught another piece of Mark’s spam (as did several other bloggers), took a peek and found the giant security lapse that allowed anyone to grab all of the personal information that Mark had stored on 5,800 people. That’s bad. Very, very bad.
So what did Mark do when he was told of his irresponsible screw-up? In true GOP fashion, he blamed the messenger and started calling everyone who questioned his negligence as un-American.

>>> I have nothing whatsoever do do with the GOP (State or Local) anymore. I have registered a new party here in Utah.

In a nutshell, Mark is pissed that Jesse won’t apologize for saying that Mark has less than 10,000 “subscribers” after Jesse got a look at a list of 5,800. Mark also called Jesse un-American because Jesse thinks that Comcast and Qwest’s internet service sucks out loud. >>>> Please provide this quote JM, Oh now who's the liar? Jesse mentioned, I gather, something about wanting the promise of Fiber-Optics that we were all promised (and funded with tax dollars) that has yet to appear almost anywhere. You know, like Utopia. Mark further goes on to falsely state that Jesse is attacking Mark’s first amendment rights of free speech. Hmmm.
So, here you go, Mark:

Point #1 :
10,000-5,800——-=4,200 <– only this many to go before 10,000.

>>> Since I'm actually responding to the thief Jesse Harris, Harris claimed I likely had less than 3000 actual email addresses, 5800 is nearly double that number if my math is correct. Now where are the missing 4200 from the 10,000? These are the email addresses of our new political party. The people who are sick and tired of the same crap comming from both the Democrats and Republicans. Humm think about that one JM. You continue to imply my email addresses came from Utah Policy Daily, yet LaVarr Webb has told you on so many occasions that is not the case. What is UPD's subscriber base? alot more than 5800. I was never an employee of Utah Policy Daily and when I started working with them their subscriber base was around 3500. I wonder how their base of email address went from 3500 to nearly 10,000 over night. So who's email list are we really talking about here JM? You want to see the rest of the list and more JM? Are you willing to put up a bond of lets' say 1 million dollars and sign a ND agreement?

Point #2 : Comcast Sucks. I have Comcast, and it DOES suck. I used to have Qwest, and they suck even harder, that’s why I have Comcast. That’s me expressing an opinion under my first amendment rights. We were promised fiber-optics years ago and we gave the telecoms a crapload of taxpayer money to get it done and …. nearly nada. Why does wanting to be #1 in the world on Internet technology, instead of #42, make us un-American? While I believe that Republicans are often backward, it doesn’t seem to fit in with American Exceptionalism that we deserve, and should therefore quietly acquiesce, to mediocrity. I’d like an explanation of that one, Mark.

>>>> Comcast sucks, really??? I have Comcast here in Salt Lake City and my download speed is nearly T1. Upload could be better but for the money it's pretty good. Qwest on the other hand has no physical connection to my house anymore, I simply cut down the cable. We can thank Rocky Anderson for not getting fiber here in SLC. Maybe that will change with a new Mayor.

Point #3 : You are, to the best of my recollection, neither a candidate nor a party officer, and furthermore, you send out your opinion and whole news articles, reproduced and posted, without the permission of the publisher under the banner of pretend pirate captain and not, say, as a political organization. Therefore, your spam is not considered protected speech. It’s just spam with politically opinionated content. You want to go stand on a street corner and yell about this stuff, feel free. Otherwise, you’re a spammer. Either clean up your act or get an “I’m a dirty, fu*king spammer” T-shirt and embrace the real you.

>>>> As I stated earlier, I am an officer of a new created political party here in Utah. I have full First Amendment Protection as the founder and chair of that party. Any copyrighted articles have full link backs to the original, and I'm not receiving anything but thanks from the websites that people go to read that full story or get additional information. Since I actually track this and can show this additional traffic they are quite pleased. I've already spoken with these people JM, and if they had a problem with what I'm doing don't you think they would be contacting me directly? Who are you the Blogger Police?

Point #4 : It’s not fun, Mark, to do this every time someone takes exception with your behavior. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the role of partisan asshat better than just about anyone, but I don’t place other people’s information at risk on the internet, and I never have to spam off a “suspect” list to get readers. So, c’mon, Mark. Knock it off, please? This is getting very old, and it’s not fun anymore. Share on Facebook

>>>>Finally JM and to all you other Political Bloggers that hate me or what I'm doing

1) I have nothing whatsover to do with the Utah or National Republican Party. I have resigned all positions, and Registered accordingly.

2) I'm sick of both major parties and plan to expose their corruption when I see it.

3) "Throw the Rascals Out" will be the rallying cry of the new political party here in Utah and maybe around the country if it catches fire.

4) I'm a political spammer, one of the biggest, although RCP is pretty close. I harvest email addresses, I purchase lists, I collect and database everything. I have every registered voter in Utah and in many other states where I consult databased. I can provide "your" voting record from 2000 to 2006 JM, and based on your neighborhood tell you exactly how you compare with your neighbors, from debts to car ownerships, paid taxes any public available information etc. You should know better than anyone JM, because I told you what I did in the past. I'm very good at what I do, and the 5800 emails stolen by Jesse and others were completely screened of the emails that are importent to me now, then I inserted a number of tracking emails. I will know exactly who and for what purpose these emails are used in the future.

Mark Towner's Spyglass Spots: Breaking: Hagel Out

September 8, 2007Breaking: Hagel OutPosted by REID WILSON E-Mail This Permalink Email Author
The Omaha World-Herald reports this morning that maverick Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska will call it quits in a Monday press conference, retiring from the Senate and forgoing a presidential bid. One source tells the World-Herald that Hagel told GOP leader Mitch McConnell of his decision yesterday.
The race to succeed Hagel already includes Attorney General Jon Bruning, and former Omaha Mayor Hal Daub is expected to join in soon. Former Nebraska Governor and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns is said to be interested in the race.
On the Democratic side, DSCC chairman Chuck Schumer is hoping to recruit former Senator Bob Kerrey for a run at his old job. Kerrey is currently the president of the New School University in New York and has hinted that he is interested in a run. Without Kerrey, Democrats would turn to Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey or 2006 congressional candidate Scott Kleeb.
Democrats would have the strongest chance of winning the seat with Kerrey at the top of the ticket, and the former senator would probably be considered the favorite against Daub and Bruning. But Johanns would certainly come in as the front-runner, both in the GOP primary and in the general. A Kerrey-Johanns matchup would be viewed as a battle of the titans and would become one of the nation's most-watched races.
Hagel's decision brings to three the number of open seats Republicans will have to defend. The announcement continues a trend of Republicans who waited to decide their fate and chose re-election -- of the Senate Republicans who said they would announce their future plans at later dates, just Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran has opted for another race. Speculation continues to mount that Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens and New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici are also considering stepping down.

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Thompson's 'Whirlwind'
Posted: 07 Sep 2007 05:15 PM CDT
Fred Thompson, making his inaugural whirlwind tour around the early primary states, isn't doing much to counter his image as a less than enthusiastic campaigner. Thompson hits New Hampshire this...


Fred in Des Moines
Posted: 07 Sep 2007 04:33 PM CDT
From Fred's Web site: That must be the podium Tom was referring to -- the one that won't be used any longer. More videos in the RCP Vlog....


Thompson's Roll Out; NH Debate
Posted: 07 Sep 2007 03:32 PM CDT
In our weekly podcast with the WashingtonPost.com I discuss Fred Thompson's roll out this week and his impact on the GOP field as well as McCain's and Huckabee's solid performance in Wednesday's...


Trail Mix with Fred
Posted: 07 Sep 2007 03:07 PM CDT
ORANGE CITY - After departing Sioux City, Thompson made a stop brief stop in Le Mars for a photo op at Bob's Drive In - "Home of the Bob's Dog*." Fred chatted up the diners while the cameras huddled...


Podium Free Fred
Posted: 07 Sep 2007 12:09 PM CDT
SIOUX CITY - Thompson just completed the third event of his kick off tour, a standing room only town hall meeting at the Sioux City Convention center. The campaign seemed pleased with the results, as...


'08 Notes: More Hits Than Ichiro
Posted: 07 Sep 2007 10:30 AM CDT
A new scandal could be popping up on the outskirts of Chicago, as Rep. Jerry Weller comes under scrutiny for a land deal in Nicaragua (how great is the San Juan del Sur dateline?). Weller failed to...


The Daily 2008
Posted: 07 Sep 2007 10:19 AM CDT
According to the New York Times' Adam Nagourney and Jo Becker, Fred Thompson's campaign goal should be a cinch. All he has to do, they write, is "win over conservatives who are disheartened at their...



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Jesse Harris is a Liar and a thief

Jesse Harris is a Liar and a thiefAnti 1st amendment jack ass Jesse Harris http://www.coolestfamilyever.com/has shown his true colors.

First he calls me a liar saying I did not have anywhere near the 10,000 subscribers I claimed for the Spyglass Newsletter. Now after stealing 5800 edited down email addresses his fist accusation is debunked. Do I receive and apology, no just more attacks and statements of how he plans on revealing the contents of the stolen email list.

Additionally by posting on his own website how he subscribed to my email list and agreeing to the terms, which included not downloading information without permission, chose to suggest other bloggers to duplicate his unethical if not illegal behavior.

His blog sites and his open support of UTOPIA, and distain of Comcast and Qwest takes a “holier than thou” attitude because I continue to “spam” thousands of email addresses with a link to my free Political Newsletter The Spyglass.

The Spyglass is nothing more than a place for me to post articles that interest me and for others to read what is happening in the world of politics. Additionally it provides me an easy archive of thoughts and stories. Additionally I sometimes write commentary or comments to get other bloggers feedback on issues or events.

What part of the First Amendment does Jesse Harris not understand?

I guess this is what you can expect from a Liar and thief.

Mark Towner,Publisher

Fred Thompson stumbles on to election stage By Toby Harnden in Council Bluffs, Iowa

Fred Thompson stumbles on to election stage By Toby Harnden in Council Bluffs, Iowa
Last Updated: 1:11am BST 08/09/2007

When Fred Thompson stepped off his "Fredmobile" bus at twilight to cries of "Go Fred Go" he would have hoped that the 300 Iowans greeting him would become part of an army that would sweep him to the Republican nomination.
But even before he began to speak, things started to go a little awry.

Fred Thompson campaigns in Des Moines, Iowa
The local politician who introduced him in the town of Council Bluffs fumbled nervously with his notes and told bemused onlookers that the candidate - "Senator Fred Roberts of Tennessee" - first ran for Congress in 1944.

Mr Thompson, who in fact arrived on Capitol Hill in 1994, had no role in the movie Bob Roberts, about a corrupt Right-winger running for president.
But he is familiar across America for his parts in Hunt for Red October, Die Hard 2 and the hit television series Law & Order.

Many Republicans believe that their front runner Rudy Giuliani is too liberal to win the party nomination while Mitt Romney, leading in the key first-voting state of Iowa, is struggling to persuade voters that his recently acquired conservative positions are genuine.

They yearn for a new Ronald Reagan, another B-list actor who was dismissed as a lightweight but who went on to help end the Cold War and become a conservative icon.
The comparison is not lost on Mr Thompson, who emphasises that he met Mr Reagan "one year out of law school, which changed my life in some respects".
But the Tennessean has entered the 2008 White House race almost a year after his chief rivals, lags behind in fundraising, has already fired several key advisers and faces expectations of being a Republican saviour that a master politician would struggle to fulfil.
Despite his varied roles as an admiral, CIA director, prosecutor and, currently, President Ulysses S Grant in I Buried My Heart at Wounded Knee, Mr Thompson has pretty much always played himself.

At the core of every character is a laid back Southern gentleman whose folksy wisdom means he seldom needs to break into a sweat.
His first acting opportunity came in 1985 after his courtroom support for a fired female official helped expose a corruption scandal.
He told those gathered at Council Bluffs: "They came to town and said 'We're going to make a movie about your case and this lady and we'd like to talk to you about playing yourself'. Well, I thought, they can't tell me I'm doing it wrong."
Mr Thompson's message, he told the crowd against the backdrop of his bus - emblazoned with the words "united by our core beliefs" - is that his humble roots gave him lifelong "common sense conservative views" and the conviction that "our basic rights come from God not from government".

With Mr Giuliani viewed by many as a hard-edged New Yorker with east coast views and Mr Romney often portrayed as an elitist millionaire from the arch-liberal state of Massachusetts, Mr Thompson has a persona that could gather much support in Middle America.
Although his words seek to convey the Reaganesque optimism that Americans love, his style on the stump is curiously low-key, occasionally bordering on the lugubrious.
He speaks off the cuff, often rambles and seldom builds to a rhetorical climax.
One Thompson adviser conceded that his campaign launch address was "a 40-minute speech with about 15 minutes of killer material in it".

Although with the television camera up close Mr Thompson has striking charisma, he lacks a stage presence.
Flanked by his glamorous wife Jeri, 40, and daughter Hayden, three, and son Sammy, 10 months, and a lot slimmer since he began a regimen of three sessions a week with a personal trainer, he looks his 65 years.
"I'd like to see him president but I think he'll appeal to the older people, the conservatives rather than to the young people," said Les McKim, 71, a retired hospital worker.
"He's not as exciting as I hoped he would be. I expected he'd be a little more of a magnetic personality."

But others believe his down-home charm is his biggest asset if he is chosen to face the person most Republicans believe will be the Democratic nominee.
"He talks so plain and understandable," said Diane Taylor, 65, a retired beautician.
"In the debates, I can't wait to hear his wonderful deep voice up against Hillary Clinton's screeching."
His campaign manager Bill Lacy insisted that there was "a huge undecided vote out there" that Mr Thompson could win over.
"Our bottom line is that this race is wide open."

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Thompson Enters Race From Tonight Show Couch
Posted: 06 Sep 2007 11:49 AM CDT
New York Times

Candidate Who Is Not There Upstages GOP Debate
Posted: 06 Sep 2007 11:48 AM CDT
Los Angeles Times

GOP Cringe at Craig's Bid to Undo Guilty Plea
Posted: 06 Sep 2007 11:47 AM CDT
New York Daily News

'08 Democrats Reuse, Recycle Rivals' Best Lines
Posted: 06 Sep 2007 11:46 AM CDT
Washington Times

Mark Towner's Spyglass Spots: Who's winning, who's losing, and why.

Who's winning, who's losing, and why.
The Minus One DebateThe last GOP face-off before Fred Thompson joins the race
By John DickersonPosted Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007, at 7:39 AM ET


If you are a Republican presidential candidate don't irritate Fox News. That was the first message from the Wednesday night debate hosted by the network. Fred Thompson didn't attend the New Hampshire forum, choosing instead to appear on NBC's Tonight Show. In what can only be seen as a delicious act of retribution, the Fox anchors started the evening with an open-ended question to the participating candidates about the former Tennessee Senator. This saved the eight men on stage the trouble of finding the right moment to work in the quips about Thompson they'd prepared beforehand. Mike Huckabee compared Thompson to the country singer George Jones who was called "No-Show George" for missing his concerts." McCain suggested the debate was past Thompson's bed time, a reference to Thompson's supposed laziness, which almost all candidates touched on indirectly as they touted their hard work.
Rudy Giuliani's opening jab was the most damaging. "He's done a pretty good job of playing my part on "Law & Order," said the former prosecutor. "I personally prefer the real thing….you have three leading Democratic candidates, none of which have ever run a city, a state or a business. America's at war. America's got some big problems. It's not the time for on-the-job training as an executive."
After the T-ball round, here's how the top candidates performed:
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John McCain: If McCain revives his campaign, his debate performance will be the moment observers seize on as the start of the turnaround. After a terrible summer of staff defections, fundraising woes and plunging poll numbers he declared the debate a "make or break moment." It sounded like the kind of false drama dying campaigns try create before doing something truly desperate and embarrassing. But McCain raised expectations and then met them. He was commanding and in control on issues from immigration to taxes to the troop surge in Iraq which many Republicans believe has been a success. ("Kicking ass," as Bush put it.) McCain took his opportunities to highlight his military and foreign policy experience relative to his opponents—particularly Mitt Romney-- without looking desperate. He was also praised several times by his opponents. Mike Huckabee went on so long about McCain's honor it sounded like the generosity rivals only show each other when one of them is getting out of the race.
Rudy Giuliani: Perhaps in future debates moderators can find an experience in the human condition which Rudy cannot use as a pretext to talk about an achievement from his tenure as mayor. Time and again Giuliani answered questions with data-laden examples of how he reduced crime or cut taxes that he said proved he was tested and ready. Though in past debates similar answers turned out to be inaccurate or puffed up, his concrete facts and details sound commanding and convey the idea that he's a hands-on manager. Plus the cramped format makes it almost impossible for his opponents to refute his assertions about shrinking the welfare rolls or managing the bureaucracy even if they wanted to. The downside: enough already with the bragging.
A voter asked Giuliani about his fraught personal life and he gave what may be his best answer to date. He appeared somewhat sympathetic (useful for a guy with a reputation as a bully) while making the case for why voters should focus on his achievements. "I am not running as the prefect candidate for president of the United States. I am running as a human being," he said, channeling John Hurt. "Any issues in my private life do not affect my public performance."
Mike Huckabee: In the first Fox debate, it was Rudy Giuliani who used Ron Paul as his foil. This time Mike Huckabee engaged in a back and forth with him over finishing the job in Iraq. It was a rare flare of substance and useful conflict over the question of what America owes the Iraqis. Paul-- who the stainless steel Romney might want to watch for lessons in how to display passion-- made the case for withdrawal, arguing that the country should not continue to suffer for the mistakes of a neoconservative cabal in the White House that launched the war. Huckabee, who conceding the mistakes in Iraq, made the case for staying in Iraq by appealing to the country's sense of honor. "What we did in Iraq is we essentially broke it," he said invoking Colin Powell's Pottery Barn rule. "It's our responsibility to try and fix it." Huckabee has been moving up in the polls. He's appealing, amusing and articulates the pro-life position better than perhaps any presidential candidate ever has. This exchange offered a chance for him to show GOP primary voters range—he could speak passionately about the central foreign policy issue of the day. Since debates live on in the sound-bites replayed afterwards, the exchange with Paul is one Huckabee should probably post in the middle of his homepage.
Mitt Romney: No matter how well you do, when a civilian questioner rebukes you it's a bad night. Romney was on his way to completing a competent if not distinguished performance when a father with a son completing his second tour in Iraq clubbed him. "I don't think you fully understand how offended my wife and I were and probably the rest of the people who have sons, daughters, husbands and wives serving in the war on terror to compare your son's attempts to get you elected my son's service in Iraq," he said, nervously. "I know you apologized a couple days later up there, a firestorm started. But it was wrong, sir, and you never should have said it."
Romney, who was already taking heat from McCain for not giving a full-throated support of the surge and whose Iraq answers sounded tentative and unwieldy, had trouble responding. He heaped praise on those who serve but it sounded more like an act of damage control than a response to the father's clear emotion.

Who is the real Accountability Blogsite?

This is just too funny?

http://vouchernews.blogspot.com/2007/09/who-is-real-accountability-blogsite.html

LOL
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Two Videos the Unions Don't Want You to See

Two Videos the Unions Don't Want You to See
1) The Tennessee Education Association doesn't want to be held to a federal "one-size-fits-all" flat buns standard.2) The United Food and Commercial Workers union thinks it can bully a 16-year-old girl.
Posted by Mike Antonucci on Wednesday, September 05, 2007 at 07:07 Permalink

1st Amendment killer Jesse Harris Responds

C’mon Mark, I’m not buying it.
Jesse said "After getting caught in his latest spam-fest, Mark Towner is now trying to claim he setup some kind of intentional "trap" to "catch me". (Catch me doing what, exactly, I have yet to figure out.) I'm guessing that in his warped state of mind he somehow thought that if he dropped his entire subscriber list in my lap (and subsequently exposed it to over 5800 other people) that he'd somehow prove his subscriber numbers. All he's proven is that 1) he has a list of 5800 e-mail addresses (a few of which complained about the lastest spamming) and 2) the list doesn't account for the numbers he claimed back in June. In short, he proved nothing except that he still forces people onto his list without permission and is willing to violate the ToS for whatever provider he happens to be on.
Here's where the specious claims continue. He claims that if I ignored the subscription e-mail he sent that I wouldn't have received anything. Last I checked, a "you're subscribed" means just that. He then continues to go further off the deep end by claiming that this list is somehow opt-in. Given that I've already seen at least 3 other complaints about being forced onto the list, I'm skeptical there as well. In fact, the people receiving this stuff at work probably keep on dropping it into the Spam bin. The kicker is that he thinks he can intimidate me (or anyone else logging in with the information he provided) by saying he has our IP addresses. Oh no, some make-believe pirate has my IP address. Whatever will I do?
The real point is that Bluehost will cancel his account for sending spam and he'll have to go shopping for yet another provider. Don't you get it, Mark? As long as you continue to send unsolicited bulk messages and violate the ToS, we'll always have a way to shut you down. The only way to end this is to use opt-in lists only. It's really not that hard and it's certainly the ethical way to go. If you don't clean up your behavior soon, there's going to be nothing but negative about you when someone does a Google search."

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Early Primary Pressure Mounts
Posted: 05 Sep 2007 11:43 AM CDT
USA Today

Winfrey Lends Her Brand and Her Empire to Obama
Posted: 05 Sep 2007 11:42 AM CDT
Washington Post

Thompson Soft on Illegals in Senate Votes
Posted: 05 Sep 2007 11:41 AM CDT
Washington Times

In Turmoil of '68, Clinton Found a New Voice
Posted: 05 Sep 2007 11:41 AM CDT
New York Times

The Rat Takes the Bait

Holy Crap! Mark Towner Exposes His Entire Subscriber List

I set the trap, and the rat took the bait.

As many of you Spyglass subscribers know, I had a run in with a local Blogger whose blogsite is called http://www.coolestfamilyever.com/

Mr. Harris called me a liar some time back about not having a substantial email list of subscribers who were receiving my free newsletter The Political Spyglass.

Mr. Harris has also taken the position that a person should not send an unsolicited email to anyone, and in fact is trying to get some legislator to run his legislation to fine people for sending out information, even political information which is all the Political Spyglass is.

Well I waited a while for things to settle down, and then baited my trap for Mr. Harris. I politely sent him and nearly 6,000 other persons who have received political newsletters, and other information an offer to subscribe to the Spyglass.

Mr. Harris could have just deleted the email but instead responded by agreeing to the subscription and opted in and then once a member downloaded all 6,000 email addresses. He then posts he will now disclose who these email addresses belong to.

Of the 6,000 email addresses Mr. Harris now has on his computer, this is his statement “Obviously, most major media outlets (including the generic inboxes) are on the list. A fair number of staff from the Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret Morning News and Herald Extra are on it. So are a bunch of state, city and school district employees. It also, however, includes a lot of employees from Zion's Bank, Deseret First Credit Union, American First Credit Union and a few other financial institutions. The best part? He also spams employees of the LDS Church including several folks at the MTC in Provo.”

What Mr. Harris fails to comment on is why these people who work for these different agencies, banks, school districts, etc are using employer owned equipment or taxpayer paid for equipment or services to receive political information. I would love for these people to explain how they can justify using their company or school district emails for obvious private reading.

Here is where the sting gets really good. I have Mr. Harris admitting his actions; I have a time stamped IP address of the download of not only Mr. Harris but all you other jokers who downloaded the file as well.

I created a special site www.thespyglass.us with full tracking software. I know who you all are now, I know your IP address, and if any of these email addresses are released, I will publicly disclose all the people who downloaded the list.

Mr. Harris, your own words will bite you in the ass
“Then there's his insane claim of having over 10,000 subscribers. Uh oh… a quick search on the FeedBlitz website shows he has a scant 3,947 subscribers, nowhere near the puffed up numbers he claims. (I'd deep link the search, but I don't see a way to do that. Just do a search for "spyglass" and you'll see him, front and center.) I'm not the only one calling him on this BS either; Part of the Plan took him to task on it as well.”

Do you really think I’m that stupid Mr. Harris, now who has their head up their own ass now? So if you are contacted by your employer, supervisor, etc about using computer resources on the clock, you can thank Mr. Harris.

Mark E. Towner
Publisher, The Spyglass

McCain on Iraq: 'I will fight against a date for surrender'

McCain on Iraq: 'I will fight against a date for surrender'
Arizona Sen. John McCain was "glad" that President Bush visited Iraq on Labor Day
NEOLA, Iowa (CNN) — Speaking with reporters at a parade in Iowa on Monday, Republican presidential candidate John McCain reiterated his belief that the current strategy in Iraq is working, saying that to withdraw is to surrender.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/09/03/mccain-on-iraq-i-will-fight-against-a-date-for-surrender/

Thompson entry to be watched for effect on Giuliani

Thompson entry to be watched for effect on Giuliani
BY CRAIG GORDON craig.gordon@newsday.com
September 3, 2007

WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani invited his high-dollar fundraisers to a weekend-in-New-York-themed meeting this summer, and in between the dinners and the golf and the Broadway shows came talk of a man they all were watching warily: Fred Thompson.Thompson's would-be presidential campaign was creating a buzz among Republicans - particularly conservatives hungry for an alternative to Giuliani - and people who were at the meeting said Giuliani's campaign team was relieved Thompson hadn't joined the race yet."They thought they were getting a break that he didn't get in," said one attendee. "They were pleasantly surprised Thompson hadn't announced, and that was July."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-usfred025357577sep03,0,7804640.story

Giuliani Worried by Fred Thompson

Giuliani Worried by Fred Thompson
Sunday, September 2, 2007 7:05 PM

Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson officially joins the presidential race on Thursday, and Rudy Giuliani and his team are watching closely to determine how much of an impact his candidacy will have on Giuliani.
"He's a Southerner, and he's a senator, and that gives him credibility," Barry Wynn, a top Giuliani adviser in South Carolina, tells Newsday. "He's certainly weaker today in terms of the level of enthusiasm of his supporters than he was a month ago ... but I certainly see him as serious competition."
Giuliani currently sits atop every major national poll, and is leading decisively in states like California and Florida. But he still faces deep skepticism from conservatives who drive the nominating process. Those are the same people who are likely to be Thompson supporters, analysts say, and that could mean Thompson won't fade any time soon.
"I was totally dismissive of his chance to get the nomination, and I'm not dismissive anymore," Stu Rothenberg, a Washington political analyst, told Newsday. "He's hung in there."
The worry for Giuliani is that Thompson could prove just as appealing to conservatives on tax cuts and terrorism -- with the added bonus of agreeing with them on social issues like abortion and gun control. It's a theme Thompson's advisers already have suggested they will play up, the importance of nominating a candidate who embodies every part of the party's beliefs.
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FRED THOMPSON, JOHN MCCAIN

FRED THOMPSON, JOHN MCCAIN
The Challenging Outlook For Thompson in New Hampshire
When I want to know what's going on in Granite State politics, one of the first folks I turn to is Andrew Cline of the New Hampshire Union Leader (also an occasional contributor at NRO).
I asked him how New Hampshire Republicans are likely to greet Fred Thompson if, as we're hearing, he annnounces the day after the big debate in the state. Some of his thoughts:
It's unclear exactly how much the decision to announce after the NH debate, and not attend it, will hurt Thompson in NH, but obviously it doesn't help him here. The state GOP is the primary sponsor of the Sept. 5 debate. If he wanted to cozy up to top Republicans here, dismissing the debate was a poor way to make a good impression. If he really intends to make a play for NH, one would expect him to come in a day or so before the debate and schmooze big-time with the big-shots. But he isn't doing that. He's made only one visit to NH so far and if he has any real organization here it isn't getting noticed. Does he have any significant GOP establishment backing here? No. Is he actively courting the activists and organizers who can run an effective insurgent campaign? Not that I've seen. So what's his plan for winning New Hampshire? ...
As far as the general public goes, they are unlikely to care too much about him skipping the debate as long as he quickly mounts a real campaign here and wears out several pairs of shoes courting NH voters. But I see no sign that he's planning to do that.
In the past, the real campaign for NH didn't begin until the fall. So historically, Thompson is entering the race (assuming he enters) at the traditional time. But this campaign got an unusually early start, and he is way behind. Romney is very well organized here, and Giuliani has picked up most if not all of the McCain supporters who bolted earlier this summer. So Thompson has to drop in mid-campaign and pick up pretty much all of the undecideds plus pull supporters from the lower-ranking candidates. That's possible, but he's got to have an organization...
It seems like Thompson will be deploying a south-centric version of the Giuliani strategy, not focusing quite so much on traditional early states like Iowa and New Hampshire as big states like Florida (although Giuliani's been spending some cash in the early states lately). Thompson, however, has to realize that a bad performance in South Carolina would break him. He's doing pretty well there, so far.

Mark Towner Spyglass Spots Jason Chaffetz on State Street

I was picking up my wife (in my #4 daughters) filthy Jeep in front of her Law Office and who is walking down the street but former Chief of Staff for Governor Huntsman Jason Chaffetz. Carrie say's hi and strikes up a conversation. When asked what his political plans were he said straight out, I'm running against Chris Cannon for Congress. Well we all suspected this to be the case, but it's the first time I actually heard it directly from his own lips.

I've seen first hand what happens to those serious candidates who take on Chris. Business deals go sour, old history gets dredged up, and you place a big fat bullseye on your back.

All I can say Jason is good luck, and watch your six......

Mark Towner

Mark Towner Spyglass Spots: School Busses on Anti-Voucher Campaign

The teachers Union is running aroung the state on school busses in their anti-voucher campaign. Question? Who paid for these busses in the first place? Who own's them now? How did they obtain them?

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Liberal NEA funnels $3 million to fight parental choice in Utah

This week blogs (see here, here, and here) were full of news about the millions of dollars that the liberal national teachers' union will be throwing against parents in Utah. The NEA is one of the most liberal political activist groups in the country. (See here for details of the spending of this "education" association.) As one spokesperson for the anti-Referendum 1 movement said in a recent Salt Lake Tribune article, "Hey, we'll accept money from outside the state. We'll seek money anywhere we can get it."
It's not a surprise that liberal interest groups with a vested interesting in protecting their monopoly would spare no expense to defeat parents. But it is very hypocritical that the Utah branch would take so much money from an out-of-step-with-Utah interest group from Washington, DC.After months of crying foul for "out of state money" influencing politics in Utah, the teachers' union has now become the biggest perpetrator of what they decry. Their money is now coming from the same place as funding for Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Amnesty International and many other liberal interest groups.
Is that really in line with Utah values?

Vote FOR 1 to protect the rights of parents above the interests of establishment unions. _______________________

Not only out of state money, but your tax dollars, too!
Choice opponents' situational ethics don't stop there. The education establishment continues to use public resources, paid for by your tax dollars, in their campaign to take choice away from Utah parents.

This week in the "launch" of their campaign, opponents of parental choice drove a Salt Lake School District bus across three counties. Public schools continue to send political fliers home with students, in violation of the law.

Please help us protect your tax dollars and the integrity of the democratic process.

If you see public schools engaging in political activity, please call us at 801-532-1448 and let us know.

It’s time to throw the rascals out!

Unaffiliated Voters of America Party or UVAP?

It’s time to throw the rascals out!
by Mark E. Towner

As many of you know I come from Alaska via Seattle via Japan. Back in the 1970’s time frame, Washington State had two of the most powerful Senators in Washington, Henry (Scoop) Jackson and Warren G Magnusson. They were both Democrats, but were in the leadership ranks in the defense of the United States during the cold war.

There were a number of scandals attributed to Magnuson and the Democratic controlled State Legislature and a grassroots movement created what was called the OWL party.

Once elected in Utah, to continue in office usually depends only on a handful of people who get elected every two years in caucus meetings. These elected officials need only keep these delegates happy and keep getting them elected in their respective precincts to keep their elected nomination positions as incumbents to get re-elected over and over again.

The recent revelations of possible misconduct by our neighboring Idaho US Senator and other Republican elected Federal and State officials scandals now brings to a head the same issues that created a 3rd political party in Washington State. The OWL stood for “Out With Legislators” and was created from both good Democrats and Republicans that were sick and tired of the Party corruption on both sides. The slogan for their campaign was “Throw the Rascals Out”.

This group targeted any Legislator, both local, state, and Federal who’s ethics, antics, and actions were found to be in question, or they were convicted of crimes but refused to step down from office.

I truly believe that we as a country are now at a crossroads in the two major party system. I feel Mitt Romney could be one of the most organized, families oriented and ethical of the current first tier presidential candidates, however the nomination system of the major two parties will likely make it impossible for him to receive the nomination.

As I have commented before on many occasions, the extremes of both parties have captured leadership and fund raising positions making it impossible for candidates who differ on some hot button positions from ever being considered by its respective party’s delegates. Additionally elected officials that have been in office longer and longer become addicted to the power of the position, and actually believe that nobody can do the job better then themselves. They always tend to forget that they were once freshman legislators and learned the ropes, just like anyone can if given the opportunity. You give an honest hardworking person an elected position and they usually rise to the occasion. However with time, (usually 12 years) they become beholding to so many special interests and groups for their re-election fund raising that they can no more blow their nose without asking permission from their key lobbyists. The healthcare problems in this country are a direct result of these elected officials in the pocket of the Industry. A perfect example is Sen. Hillary Clinton received the most money from the Healthcare Industry for her campaign. Have you heard on word from the Senator lately about her healthcare plans?

As a sign of further frustration within our own Utah Republican Party, I have officially changed my political party designation to “unaffiliated” and plan on forming a formal “Unaffiliated Voters Party of Utah” to place good honest mainstream candidates on the ballot to “Throw the Rascals Out”.

We will be seeking like minded “Unaffiliated Utah Voters” to sign our petition to get this new Party recognized here in Utah, and maybe elsewhere in the US.

If you are interested in becoming involved in this effort send an email to uvap@ssl-mail.com

Who are the Unaffiliated Voters?

Unaffiliated Voters seek a non-partisan approach to electing our officials is necessary to secure the future we all want. They have been the major swing vote in every election for the last few decades and now should to be noticed as a major part of keeping our democracy responsive to the needs of the citizens.

We encourage and embrace all Political Parties as long as they move our country forward in a positive way. They also feel that, as an organized voice asking for, and then hearing, non-filtered, full, non-partisan information directly from the people running for each office in this country, it makes the voters better informed before making our voting decisions.

This means we can then vote for the person and not a party.

It also means that the parties must become solution seekers as opposed to the political game playing we have had over our country's history.

Voters should individually focus on the person who can do the best job no matter which color of political flag they may fly. We should be only interested in one flag and that is the flag of our country