In NY-26, Jack Davis Scuffles With Cameraman, and AP IDs Him As a ‘Tea Party Candidate’; He’s Not
Can someone call himself a Tea Party candidate even though he has no visible support from local Tea Party groups and has been asked by one of them not to run? The Associated Press's Carolyn Thompson apparently thinks so. Thompson's 3:03 p.m. report ( saved here for future reference, fair use and discussion purposes) makes no mention of congressional candidate Jack Davis's lack of Tea Party group support, and waited until the final paragraph of her 17-paragraph report to tell readers that Davis is “a wealthy Republican businessman” who ran for Congress in 2004, 2006, and 2008 — as a Democrat. The large body evidence that Davis is not a legitimate Tea Party candidate consists of at least the following: On April 6, William Jacobsen at Legal Insurrection asserted that “Davis is a spoiler, does not represent the Tea Party movement or conservatives, and his campaign is being run a self-described progressive operative.” On March 24, Moe Lane at RedState writes that the campaign manager, Curt Ellis, is a former diarist at Talking Points Memo, a leftist site, and quotes Ellis as saying the following about the Tea Party: “They fancy themselves the vanguard of a revolution, when in fact they are typical self-absorbed, privileged children used to having their way — now – and uninhibited about complaining loudly when they don’t. It’s the same demographic Spiro Agnew called 'an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.'” On March 25, Roll Call reported that “Leaders of the largest tea party organization in Western New York have called on Jack Davis to exit the 26th district special election,” alleging that “his advisors and campaign manager are trying to pull a power play for self aggrandizement and power.” On April 6, Sam Foster at Left Coast Rebel in a post entitled “Months after Tea Partiers were Protesting, Jack Davis was supporting progressive politicians,” documented mid-2009 contributions of $1,000 to the following Democrats –Dan Maffei on June 30; $1,000 to Brian Higgins on June 25; $1,000 to Eric Massa on June 30; $1,000 to Louise “demon pass” Slaughter July 1; and Steven Kagen on August 4. Thompson's report addresses a YouTube-posted incident (also embedded at Hot Air , where Jazz Shaw's post is headlined “Fake Tea Party Candidate Assaults Cameraman”) which occurred on Wednesday. What follows are the first seven paragraphs from Thompson's report, with her “oh by the way” final paragraph added at the end: A 15-second video shows a tea party congressional candidate in New York scuffling with a Republican Party volunteer who questioned his absence from a debate.
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