Wanna slug Pete Hoekstra in his doughy, overinflated pride?
Wanna show the Republicans we're on the offensive this year?
Send some love and a few bucksto make sure Hoekstra's successor is Democrat Fred Johnson. Cuz the West Michigan Fundamentalists are going to be out in force to see that Hoekstra is replaced with a Hoekstra clone in 2010. More on Johnson in a bit.
Can't afford a donation? How's about a rec? I wanna get this guy some help. He lost to Hoekstra in 2008.
As a reminder, this is Pete Hoekstra
He's from Michigan's 2nd District which includes my home town, Muskegon.
Recently, he used a failed terrorist attack on America, playing on Americans fears to raise campaign money for his bid for Michigan Governor...more on that bid later, too.
Before that, he voted down 4 billion dollars for TSA, intended to beef up airport security...on the grounds that the bill would allow people to **gulp** unionize.
Before that he tipped off the secret object of a CIA investigation that he was under surveillance...the cleric the Fort Hood shooter was in correspondence with.
Before that he famously tweeted this:
"Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House."
And of course this beautiful nugget, telling the world his and other congresspeople's exact location and destination in Iraq, minute by minute.
"Moved into green zone by helicopter Iraqi flag now over palace. Headed to new US embassy."
And before that, "in 2006 he called a press conference to great fanfare to announce the weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq." -- Source And then when he was told he was wrong, he accused the CIA of being in cahoots with Al Quaeda.
Once again. Pete Hoekstra, everybody.
Representative for Michigan's 2nd district.
How did such a buffoon get to into Congress?
Not so incidentally, West Michigan is under the heavy and well funded influence of radical fundamentalists.
Know Eric Prince? Founder and head of Blackwater Security, now known as Xe? He's from....Michigan's 2nd district. His sister, Betsy DeVos is married to Dick DeVos the failed Michigan Governor candidate. DeVos is a billionare who owns Amway, now known as Alticor, the multilevel marketing scam that preys on financially desperate working class people.
The DeVos's and the Prince's are billionaires. And they work to control West Michigan politics with cash. And they're barking mad.
Pete Hoekstra isn't running for Congress again. He's running for Governor. But he may not win the primary (he's even a buffoon by Republican standards).
So there's a vacant seat where Hoekstra is leaving. And it can either go to another Republican buffoon funded by the Fundamentalists, or it can go to this guy...
Fred Johnson
Fred Johnson is the Democratic Candidate for Michigan's 2nd district.
Mr. Johnson is an Associate Professor of History at Hope College in Holland and an eight year veteran of the Marine Corps. He's got a deep respect for education, and knows what it means to send our best and brightest into harm's way in the US military, and knows how important it is to help them out in return for their service when they come back home.
This is the guy I want taking the place of Pete Hoekstra. This is the guy I want to see BURY Pete Hoekstra's close successor.
Want to help him out?
Want to jab Pete Hoekstra right in his pride?
Want to send a message that Dems are on the offensive for 2010? NOT the Defensive?
Send some love and a few bux to Fred Johnson's campaign. Here's his ActBlue page.
I know that technically tomorrow is a campaign year. But, personally, I can't wait to get this fight started.
Happy New Year, folks.